At the entrance to the City of Calderón in the Spirit World.
Amon stood at the entrance, surveying the scene within. The mist-shrouded city was silent, without a trace of life.
His gaze swept across the city inch by inch. At last, he murmured with a sigh:
"What should I do?
"It seems I'm too late."
"That's only natural," Will Auceptin's clear voice sounded. "Until the luck she's accumulated runs out, it's only natural that we can't find her—and even if we do, we won't be able to catch her."
Amon seemed unconcerned with what he had said. He chuckled and asked curiously:
"So it's 'we' now?"
After two seconds of silence, Will Auceptin's subdued voice sounded again:
"What choice do I have? You're my 'mother' now. As a child still in his mother's womb, of course I can only trust my 'mother.'"
There was nothing particularly wrong with that, but Amon paused. Then he asked hesitantly:
"Then who is your father?"
"...I don't know." Will Auceptin sounded utterly puzzled. "Maybe you are?"
Amon said nothing. He swept his gaze across the City of Calderón once more, then vanished from the spot.
After discussing the Worm of Time charms with Pallez, Leonard turned his attention back to Klein's letter and read it carefully.
"Possession by an Evil Spirit. The Evil Spirit's origins and main objective...
"I don't know enough about Evil Spirits. I haven't a clue..."
After thinking for a few minutes, Leonard took out a box of matches and burned the letter. Then he frowned and muttered:
"Too bad Madam Daly isn't here... And she's on leave for her wedding."
It was called wedding leave, but that wasn't quite the whole story. Leonard knew that if something happened that left the Nighthawks overwhelmed, Dunn and Daly probably wouldn't