The witches fighting the shadows could overhear the conversation between Nathan and his mother and this distracted them greatly, some shadows nearly escaped them but Ethan was quick to use magic to freeze them. But it was only a matter of time before the spell wore out.
Thankfully, Stephanie and Nick arrived just at that time with polythene bags containing sand. They started from a distance to fire shot of the sand towards the horde of shadows and a lot of them fell to the floor, dead, and then disappeared.
Ethan, Lydia, Diane and Stephen met Nick and Stephanie halfway, taking some scoops of sand in their hands from them and firing it at the shadows.
More shadows fell. Then they all started to attack the shadows together but it seemed like the more shadows they killed, the more shadows that trooped out the ajar door. The shadow world was after all filled with as many shadows as they were humans in the whole world, that is the whole of planet earth.