Chapter 36

At first he thought it was all a fluke. The Witch trusts him, she does and his soul believed it with all of his heart. The promise she made, that one day — if Katalka does what she told — his soul will be released peacefully. Not to the underworld, but to the Spirit world. And for years, the leader of the Shadows believed that lie.

It's not like the Shadows to concern themselves with things that aren't related to the Witch, Calleb or the old Shaman, and yet when the leader of the Shadows saw Luther — a part of him knows that the soul inside the rotting corpse’s soul was darker than his. While his soul chose that very moment to stage a mutiny, the spell that binds his soul to Ursula stopped the Leader from doing so.

And yet it was an idea that he had been tempted to execute a couple of times.

Another Shadow bumped against his shoulder as he paved the way against hundreds of boney creatures as they marched towards the nearest Village.

The Shadow — a lot smaller than Katalka bowed his