Chapter 6
My stepsister had simply disappeared from the middle of the shed. My heart surged with excitement. Something mysterious was going on at Castle Raine—and it most certainly had to do with Neeve.
I stepped inside, wrinkling my nose at the smell of drying herbs, then turned in a slow circle. Had she left by magic? There was no evidence of anything out of the ordinary, no half-burned candles or sigils inscribed on the floor.
The floor…
I bent to take a closer look. A barely visible scratch ran along the scuffed boards from the back wall, arcing out to my left. Very like the mark a door would make as it swung open and shut.
Triumphantly, I straightened and went to the wall. It was hard to make out details in the dim light filtering into the shed, much less try to locate a hidden d
