Chapter 240

Not too far from campus, another bit of magic was also in play.

Three figures stood in the darkness of a deserted cemetery. In front of them were three freshly filled in graves, the loose dirt and sod atop them turned muddy by the storm. Two of the figures held umbrellas up against the diminishing rain. The third squatted close in front of them at the edge of one of the graves, protected from the rain by their umbrellas.

“We know the bodies were dug up here from the police reports,” Rome said to Smith and Jones. “I can sense that magic was used here, but what kind exactly, I cannot tell. It’s been too long and the traces are too faint. But it was not the kind that could reanimate the dead, of that I’m certain.”

The men thought for a moment.

“Perhaps the magic was used to unearth the bodies,” Smith suggested.

“And then the reanimation was performed elsewhere,” Jones said, finishing the thou