7
“What are you talking about?”
Maren stopped walking, but she didn’t look at me.
“What Katori said … about the ghosts. I know what they are.”
“What are they?” I asked.
“Souls of the dead.”
I stood there quietly, not sure what to say at first. “I don’t understand. Souls of what dead? The dragons?”
“No, not just the dragons. All souls.”
“How do you know?”
Maren turned to look at me. “I know it sounds insane, but we need to go where the ferryman was killed. I have to know for sure.”
The ferryman. Demris’s first victim from when he’d been brought back from the island. What did the ferryman have anything to do with … and then it hit me, and I understood Maren’s logic.
“You think the ghosts are lost souls?”
“Yes.”
“It seems plausible,” I said. “But what do the souls have to do with
