47 Take Off!

"I’ve found something." Vivian snapped her fingers and a thin layer of fog started to form at a corner of the room. The fog quickly converged and transformed into bats, flying above and over Vivian’s shoulders.

For all the time spent with the two superwomen, Hao Ren had seen enough of their supernatural tricks; especially Lily’s doggy tail and Vivian’s pet bats. He played with one of the little bats, studying it and looking for differences from wild bats. "What did you find?" Hao Ren asked.

"Leave the bats alone. They’re duplicates of me. They share my senses," Vivian warned Hao Ren as she smacked away his hand. "I sent the bats out to the castle ruins. Something is in there—the aura of wraiths, of hundreds of years... and lots of them too."