Unexpected Alliance

"Ahem! I ... I was afraid the priest would think badly of me when he found me inside my husband's body! I mean, when they say we're going to be one flesh I didn't think it was that literal!" she exclaimed, jumping to her feet.

The priest reached for the crucifix on his chest but made no attempt to exorcise Alexa. At least for now. He just narrowed his eyes and looked at her coldly,

"No, it certainly isn't that way. But you certainly have a suitable explanation for that," he said.

"I don't know if it's a suitable explanation, but ... it's the truth," and Alexa told how she discovered after the wedding that Alexander's soul had escaped to Romeo when he could no longer return to his own body. And how the lighthouse witch had promised that she could share her life with her husband if she agreed to a ritual. Finally, she had just discovered that she left her own body at dusk and returned to it when the sun came up on the horizon.