Chapter 25: Damian and Ridge, Hexed The night’s black sky opened before Damian and Ridge as they rode in the Nissan Frontier, heading towards Lake Erie. Nothing visible except for night littered their views. Blackness surrounded the pair as they both read a sign that said Ashtabula—6 Miles. Neither would have been surprised if the starless void opened and a circular and massive object the color of razor sharp steel punched through its darkness and pushed a beam of purple-orange light against the highway in front of them. Both believed in unidentified flying objects and aliens from different galaxies and universes. Although neither had been issued access to a strange and extraterrestrial case by the FBI, they knew that such cases existed: crop circles, alien abductions, and loss of time an

