Mirror, Mirror (Book 2)

Chapter 34: Don't Fuck With Satan

As soon as they welcomed the newcomers, Ms. Fern's junior and senior class both finished their breakfast, then ran outside to play.

The younger ones played basketball with their new camp counselor, Tyson, while Jane and Jonah are busy sitting in the Banquet Hall's porch, looking in different directions.

In the meantime, Oliver and Amelia both headed over to the boy's cabin. Each of them reviewed what they think what happened during the fire.

"Jake or his father must have lured the girls using something." Oliver theorized.

"Maybe Jake's manipulation has done the trick," Amelia suggested. "For instance, the moment he showed up, everyone liked him."

"Except you," Oliver reminded.

"Yeah," Amelia said, gazing at the clear blue sky. "because he's a womanizer."

The boy chuckled, "a womanizer? I think someone is getting horny."

The vampire rolls her eyes, reaches into her left pocket, then she pulls out an odd looking knife.

Small as a mouse, dull like silver, and has a light mahogany, wooden handle, Oliver was confused as to why Amelia is giving the knife to him.

Does she want him to kill someone?

But seeing his reaction, Amelia sighed, "the knife isn't for self-defense: it's for carving wood."

Oliver looks at her oddly. "Carving wood? Where did you get it?"

"I stole it."

"Why?"

"It's for putting a protection symbol on the cabin door."

She knocks her knuckles on the wooden entrance for effect.

"You're right about protecting your classmates," Amelia went on, "while I was hunting in the woods, I have seen dark auras flickering like fireflies."

Dark auras? Oliver wondered.

"You mean the one I saw earlier? After dinner?"

Amelia nodded.

"So you believe me after all?"

"Well, we are in a supernatural town." Amelia shrugged, handing him the knife.

Smiling, Oliver politely takes the knife from Amelia, then carves a protection pagan symbol on the door.

Carefully, the boy etched a fifty-centimeter circle on the hardwood, then later, chiseled a pentagram: a five-pointed star used in religious spells.

Oliver had read somewhere in a book that it protects people from demonic spirits, such as hellhounds, ghouls, and other gruesome creatures.

If he puts it anywhere-like on a house or a door-then the property will be safe, until the cops can rescue them.

As soon as he is done with his work, Oliver gives the knife to Amelia, who marches down the wooden steps, walks over to the girls' cabin, and copies Oliver's drawing on the wooden entrance.

Similar to the markings on the boys' cabin door, Amelia made hers appear like it came from one of Oliver's spell books; The circle was as thin as a tree branch, but the star looked authentic.

Chips of old wood sprayed on Amelia's feet as the vampire wipes the splinters with her left hand, crushing them instantly.

When she was finished, Oliver left the boys' cabin, and walks up to the vampire, marveling at her art.