"Nikita, we must go," she said. I had to tear my gaze away from where Amarisa was. Hopefully, I would get to see her again.

As we walked away, Tusita kept staring at me with a weird look as if she could sniff something naughty in me. I pretended not to notice.

Along the way, a group of people glided around in the shimmering light. They dressed in long flowing sumptuous costumes and golden headdresses. Some of them even walked straight out of the trees. I would have been scared and gone crazy, but I seemed to get used to all the bizarre things now.

"Are they ghosts?" I asked...