Chapter 74. Help’s Coming

Lacey was troubled as the wailings continued to grow louder every second. Fear gripped her that they might finally gain access to the wood house.

The old woman could see the fear in her eyes. “You don’t need to fear,” she said. “The sigils will keep them out.”

For years of being in the land of the dead, she had never experienced such an outburst of rage from werewolf reapers. There were several kinds of reapers, each assigned to a specific task. The Grimm Reapers were assigned the task of reaping humans, werewolf reapers to reaping werewolves, and witch’s reapers to reaping witches, among others. Never had a Grimm Reaper reaped a werewolf or a witch’s reaper reaped a human. Each maintained their own given task. With Nyx now controlling almost half of the reapers, this was about to change. She had no business in the land of the dead but always had her way of meddling with affairs that did not concern her jurisdiction.

Lacey breathed a sigh of relief as she focused h