Ms T is out,’ Ben told Luke as they passed each other in the hall before last period on Thursday, almost a week after Kyle’s funeral. Cool, Luke thought. Ms Taylor could be kind of a hardass. It would be a nice break to have a sub. Often, a sub meant a chance to get some homework done in class. That would free up time after school to keep working on translating the papers that had been hidden in the church. It had been more than a week since Kyle was killed, and Luke still hadn’t found anything useful on the new demon, if a demon was what they were dealing with. There hadn’t been any more attacks, so he was starting to hope it had been some kind of strange animal, maybe one that was lost and hurt and scared and so it attacked Kyle before it crawled off onto the beach and got washed away. It didn’t seem likely. There were still a lot of Latin pages to get through. Somewhere in them could be some vital info. Even though Luke’s dad had insisted that Luke start studying Latin in elementary school – he claimed it was the basis of pretty much everything – it was still taking for ever to work his way through the material.
