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Chapter 46

"What do you know about Allison using the han - ? Tell me everything you know, Dad," I blurted, because I would bet ten thousand vocal cords I wouldn't have a lot of time before Allison came running, and I couldn't even say what I wanted to.

He ticked his gaze to the closed door behind me, shifting nervously on his bum leg. "I went along with everything because it would help your mother."

"Help how?" I asked.

"We give the Silence Collectors bodies of the recently hanged, and they take the vocal cords to add to their collection for this spell they want to try to undo the Rift Curse." He gripped his shirt over his amulet as if shielding it from what he was saying. Could he speak because he hadn't left the church? "They provide the special effects on the roof, making it look like the Berkano demanded a sacrifice, while they wait for the body. In exchange, they bring us vampire blood from one they've already killed."