Chapter 4 : Consequences

Eva lets out a long sigh when she's done looking over the spell and the altar cloth I have still stretched out across my living room floor.

"I'm going to be honest with you, Nari. I really have no idea how to help you."

Behind us, Sol grumbles on the couch.

We both ignore him.

"We can't use the same spell to send him back?"

She shakes her head and holds up the book, pointing to the spell I read when doing the ritual. "It says here that you're calling on him. Kind of like a one-way telephone."

"Oh…"

She turns towards the couch. "Can you find another open portal? She brought you here but surely if you step through another portal to Hell, it'll take you back there."

Sol leans away from the back of the couch and rests his elbows on his knees. He leans his weight forward while his lips turn down into a cruel looking sneer.

"Typically, yes. That would be my first go-to. However, your friend here has decided to tether me to this house."

My eye