IT HAS BEGUN, Satyena projected as she used an unlock spell to open the door to the service elevator, and stepped in. The complex of the Witch Doctors is in flames.
She had returned to Home Coven in secret and accessed the utility floor of what had once been a high-rise hotel; now, as she slid the cage door closed and pressed the button that would take her to the uppermost floor (the former restaurant which was Sister Samain’s personal residence), she wondered if she would be able to carry out her end of the deal. For what she hadn’t told Jeremiah and Jasper was the true extent of Samain’s power: that the witch might, if she became aware of Satyena’s presence in Home Coven (and in the service elevator especially!), cast any manner of spells and misdirects—indeed, that with her power she c
