“Now is the time.”
“Yes, let us begin,” Lakshmi said encouragingly.
They proceeded to the bathroom where they first hauled Christine out by the ankles, dragging her back into the living room before pulling Jon out by both arms. The couple was startled by the appearance of the candles in the middle of the carpet set in the shape of the pentagram. It fleetingly crossed Jon"s mind how much damage the melting wax would have done to the expensive flooring.
Damodar had set one of Jon"s briefcases in the middle of the pentagram to be used as an altar of sorts. He set the ceremonial dagger in the middle of the briefcase and set four burning chunks of candle on each of its four corners. He then knelt alongside the makeshift altar and began muttering arcane incantations in order to conjure up the
