"Yes, I understand that," Persephone returned a bit more sharply than she had intended. "Am I to infer, then, that the only things that might drive a spirit from their habits or routines are the same as you or I?"

Merlin, how she wished she could just come out and say it—My ghost friend has not been seen by me or her family in the month since I performed an experimental ritual on her. This, however, she knew would open a whole new can of worms that would begin with this Mr. Greengrass interrogating her and end with her mother inexplicably finding a way to send her to finishing school at the age of five-and-twenty.