Chapter 49: The Witch (7)
The psychic in question specialized in communicating with spirits and knew nothing about combat.
After discovering Kelly’s whereabouts, he did not raise the alarm. Instead, he hid at a distance and contacted the team of exorcists hired by the Kingsleys.
The news spread quickly through the group. At the Kingsley estate, the long-waiting exorcists gathered to analyze the situation and concluded that Kelly had very likely been hiding in the abandoned teaching building all this time.
The corpse of the witch Olivia was stored in a secret chamber at the base of the building. That chamber had once been used to imprison the witch. On each of its six walls hung a sacred cross hand-carved during the Crusades by a renowned cleric known as Saint Antonio, ensuring that even with wings, the witch would have no escape.
After the witch’s death, the Kingsley family had sealed the chamber completely and filled it with holy oil, submerging the corpse within. The entire room was effectively turned into a crypt for preserving the body.
Both the crosses in the chamber and the holy oil poured into it possessed a natural suppressive effect against evil forces. With the witch’s corpse stored there, it was extremely secure. And since the body was the witch’s greatest weakness, once the chamber had been located, the exorcists had not immediately removed the remains. They intended to wait until Kelly was captured, force the witch’s soul out of her body and back into the corpse, and then burn both together in cleansing flames.
They suspected that Kelly had been hiding in the abandoned building all along in order to find an opportunity to breach the chamber, retrieve her corpse, and eliminate her greatest vulnerability.
Unfortunately for her, before she could discover a way to break through the sealed chamber, her movements were exposed.
It happened to be Saturday. With no classes in session, the school grounds were empty—an ideal time to act.