I cancel my coffee date with Declan. I tell him I went to see Aradia and just wasn't in the mood to talk yet. Days go by in a blur. I go to school in a trance and then work my shifts at Saints and Sinners in a trance.
Aradia is still in a coma and the doctors have no clue when she might come out of it. I feel like something is coming, some sort of evil is going to descend on me soon but I am in over my head. I have no idea how to protect myself. The only magic I have learned so far is how to get myself out of my own protected circles and do a few parlor tricks. I have learned nothing.
About a week after Aradia was attacked, I am walking down town and end up stopping in front of St. Louis Cathedral. I am not religious but I find a pull calling me into the church. I step in and
