CHAPTER 58Mara pounded on the back door of the shop in frustration as she realized she didn’t have the keys with her. Either she had left them inside or had lost them up on the roof. She turned to run around the block to get help for Ping who remained on the roof. He was having trouble breathing, and his eyes had swollen shut. After taking a couple steps down the alley, she heard the door open. A tiny head covered in auburn hair poked out below the doorknob.
“Morning, Mar-ree. Did you shine last night?” Hannah said.
Mara paused and turned. “That was you. You cast off the darkling wraith, didn’t you?”
“What?”
She looked at Mara as if she were crazy, the corner of her mouth turned downward and an eyebrow arched upward. The expression quickly melted away but lasted long enough to fill Mar
