Chapter Twenty-Two

Nick wrestled with what to do.  It was the night of the new moon and he should be returning to shadow land for regeneration and rejuvenation.  He could skip one new moon with limited consequences to himself, but more than that would be a problem.

He guessed his captor was a shadow person simply by the way he was being treated.  It wasn’t as cruel and harsh as one would expect from a hunter who was simply waiting for him to leave his body on the new moon, so it could be destroyed before he returned.  Hunters had a sick way of thinking that, since the body was empty of the spirit because it was in shadow land, they weren’t committing murder by destroying it.  They failed to understand that a small part of the soul and the spirit were still connected to the body and not all was departed.  If that was the case, then the shadow walker would truly be dead.

If he was correct and his captor was a shadow walker, then he should be return