CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Kira slammed the book shut in frustration. She had read the book from beginning to end three times and had yet to find anything that could help her. She cursed silently and stood up, rubbing her eyes with balled fists. She stared around the room and locked her eyes on the zombie. Who was powerful enough to take over her creation? She wasn’t sure. She walked into her bedroom and thought she heard something scrabbling against her wall.
She grabbed her cloak from the dresser and wrapped it around her shoulders. Lifting her hands up before her face, she cast an illusion of a man’s appearance over her own. Glancing into a mirror to check that the illusion was flawless, she nodded to herself in satisfaction. She went back into the main room and grabbed her dagger off the tab
