“He’s pissed. He’s coming for me and he’s going to find me. You need to get out of—Why are you here?”

“I live in Salem now. Have for a decade. Father called a few minutes ago and told me to get to Leyka’s old house and wait here⁠—”

“Thy arrow first will lead you home, a trusted face for a page in the tome.” I pulled my sleeve up to show him Valathame’s message. “It’s you. Home means you because my family is my home. I’m supposed to give this to you⁠—”

The front door flew open, sending a wave of dust rolling towards us. We both coughed as Silas and Yaluk rushed inside, though I only knew he was Yaluk based on the orange color of his eyes. Silas had a gnarly wound going down his forehead, through his eyebrow, and straight down his eye and halfway down his cheek. Somehow the eye itself wasn’t sliced, but it was a little foggy-looking.

“Then let him leave on wings of fire,” I whispered. “Hi, Silas. Yaluk, right?”

He nodded.

Silas gave a short nod. “Elan—I mean, Akecheta—sent us.”

“Do you know where Tegan and The Coven are right now?” When Silas nodded, I turned back to my grandson. “You have to deliver the page I stole back to them⁠—”

“What? Why me? Why not you⁠—”

“I don’t know. Valathame’s message was clear though.” I pulled my magic bag off my waist and sat it in Rae’s hands. Then I pulled my rune stone bracelet off and slipped it inside the bag. “Trust me, okay? I need you to guard this bag with your life. It has the missing page from the tome inside. Take the whole bag and get it to The Coven. Your mother and grandfather should be there with them. They’ll know what to do. Just get this bag to anyone in The Coven. Okay?”

He wrapped his fingers around the rope cord, then slipped it around his neck and shoulder so he wore it cross-body. “I won’t let you down.”

Blue light flashed from outside.

I cursed and spun around to look out the front window. My heart sank. There he was, walking down the street with only one black wing and his magic coiling around his hands.

I pointed. “Mammon.”

All three guys grumbled and cursed.

“Silas, Yaluk, go out the back door and shift. Be ready. Then get Rae and this bag to The Coven. Got it?” I held their stare. Yaluk gave me a salute, then ran for the back of the house. “Silas?”

Silas narrowed his eyes on Rae, then looked to me. “You two know each other?”

I opened my mouth, then shut it. “Story for when I get back?”

Silas shrugged. “Fair. Rae, we’ll be waiting out back.”