'd you hear that name?""I found something. At the mill. Her name was carved there."Tom's face darkened. "Stay away from that place, Ethan. It's not safe.""Why? What happened to her?"

r she disappeared, I found a vial like that one in her room. I threw it out."Ethan's stomach dropped. The vial was still in his room. He didn't tell Tom. Instead, he biked to Lila's house, where she and Marcus were decoding more of the journal. "It mentions a ritual," Lila said. "Something about 'binding the shadow' to keep the town safe. It needed a guardian eve