Sending you to paradise

When Julie exerted a little more energy of hers to dispel the circle that the other witch had created, she coughed out blood from her mouth. 

"Don't go doing things you cannot handle, my daughter," taunted Douglas, and Julie kicked his leg and elbowed him, which made him loosen his hold on her. "Ouch! I heard soul energy is very important and you seem to have used most of it. A little more and you will die. Why die just like that when you can die for a good cause?" 

Julie wiped the blood that she had coughed on the side of her jeans. She quickly took a couple of steps away from the witch and Douglas. 

"Like killing me yourself?" questioned Julie, and her foster father smiled. "Do you think you will be able to leave this place alive?"