Book Seven: Chapter 170

“Eulalie.” Dana’s voice had a tense edge to it. “The command center is down. The kids aren’t in here.”

“They went over the wall on the south side of the greenhouse,” Eulalie replied as she pulled up some different feeds. She had installed a few cameras around the neighborhood and scrolled through the footage in the hopes of spotting them. A dark van pulled out of the driveway of the next-door neighbor’s house. The witch and a man in sunglasses were in the front seat. “They left the property already.”

“Good.” Jenny sounded like she was speaking through a tube filled with razor blades. Eulalie looked at the monitor and saw that the doll was hovering in the front yard, held in place by shadowy legs. Anyone who came within twenty feet of her had their heads rapidly spun 180 degrees. “We don’t have to be careful anymore.”

Men and women were flash frozen along the front yard as Yuki dashed between them, the kitsune already headed for the street. Cerberus howled and sent