Chapter 10 - Bella

“I’m so fucking tired of this shit!” Citra says, pushing the grimoire away from her, nearly knocking her glass of lemonade over. “It’s like Selene and Hecate just disappeared.”

I sigh, putting a piece of paper in my spellbook to hold my place before closing it. “I hate to say it, but you’re right. I don’t know what else we can do to find them.”

“I keep telling you guys, we could do a summoning,” Nora says for the millionth time.

“And we keep telling you ‘no,’” Citra bites back, rolling her eyes.

“We just don’t know what will pop out in the summoning,” Meredith says, her tone a lot nicer than Citra’s, though you can still hear her fatigue in her voice.

“But isn’t that what the salt circles are for?” JoJo asks.

“Sure, if we happen to pull up a demon. That’s not the only thing that you can summon, especially if you’re trying to bring a god into the circle,” I say.

“But, isn’t there something that we can put as a barrier for whatever we could summon? Salt for demons, iron for