CHAPTER FIVE
That's how all of this mess started.
A woman from my past who dragged me back into the dark arts, a g**g of jinn with mysterious motives, an emergency trip to the spirit world, a reunion with my good friend-turned-lich, and a chase from a scorpion demon who wanted me dead…
That was a typical night for a necromancer back into his old ways, and it was only going to get worse.
All of this flashed through my mind as I lay on the ground in the spirit world and stared the scorpion demon in the eyes.
Its tail hurtled for me, and everything slowed down. For a moment, I looked forward to being put out of my misery. Not exactly how I wanted to go, but like they say in my neighborhood, things could have been worse.
It would have been poetic, that's for sure—the giant scorpion with
