Chapter 12

“Wake up. Come quick.”

She paused, the voice familiar. Then she gasped when it registered who was speaking. Yu alternated between shaking her shoulder and frantically flying around.

“Yu? You can talk now?”

“Witch. Help.”

“Witch helped you?” she deduced, still incredulous. “With Mabel magic, I presume, since no one can learn a new language that fast.”

“Witch. Help.”

It clicked when her gaze finally fell behind her and found the spot empty. Brian whirled back to face Yu, then looked around. She froze when she heard something flit in her ears…music, but why would there be music in the cave?

“Yu, where’s Mabel ?”

The pixie understood and pointed repeatedly to their right, where the bank of water was located. It was dark just like the rest of the cave, but Yu’s expression had her crawling toward it. When she did, the music became clearer and transformed into a woman humming a melody, her voice like magic and temptation rolled into one. Just as it faded, a warning crawled down her spine. Yu