I didn't want to be in the room while they finished setting up for the seance and I certainly didn't want to be a part of the seance either, but it was for the best. If I left the group again, who knew when that thing would reappear and if they tried something without me, they might accidentally give it some sort of power.

"Lia," I looked up at Colby, "We're ready to start."

"Okay..." I stood from my seat in the corner and took a look at their set up.

The salt line was thin, the dowsing rods were practically sacrilegious, and the elements were just asking for trouble. The only devices and method of communication that I approved of in that room was the K-II .

"Give me the salt." I held out my hand to Jake who still held the bottle.

"It's empty." he shrugged looking over to Sam.

"That's it? That's all the salt you brought with you?! That dingy line isn't going to do shit to help you!" I panicked a bit. If they went through with this without the necessary protection we were all pretty much fucked.

"There's more salt in the guesthouse, we'll go get it." Corey said, dragging Jake along by his hood.

"But why do I have to go?" Jake asked trying to escape the extra exercise.

"No one goes any where by themselves! That way there's someone to get help if one of us gets jumped." Corey

"By what? A dog?" Jake raised his eyebrows.

"The demon, moron!" Corey gripped onto Jake's hoodie even tighter and left the room.

"This is a mistake, isn't it?" I asked, "It's going to get attached to one of us and something awful is going to happen and I'm not going to be able to stop it! Maybe we just shouldn't do this at all!"

"It'll be okay, Lia, I promise! If something bad happens we'll call a priest and we'll take care of it. There hasn't ever been a case of someone being seriously injured by a ghost or demon, so it's unlikely that we'd be the firsts now." Colby put a hand on my shoulder and tried to calm me down.

"Yeah... You're probably right. I just need to stop stressing over this so much."

"Well, think about it this way, Lia," Sam said, "We're actually closer to the Vatican here than we were in Los Angeles, so worst case, we take a train or something and get help there."

"But this is an island right? We'd have to take like a boat and a train or a plane." Colby argued.

"Actually there's this thing called the Channel Tunnel that goes under the water of the English Channel and brings trains across from England to the point of Calais in France. " I explained.

"Oh, wow," Colby seemed shocked, "that's actually wicked cool. I kind of hope someone gets possessed now and we have to go to Italy."

"But imagine this," I said, "The demon collapses the tunnel and we all drown."

"Okay, maybe not a possession then..." Sam sighed.

"Yeah, I second, no possessions please," Colby clasped his hands as one would during a prayer and squeezed his eyes shut.

"We're back!" I heard Jake yell down the hall.

"Finally!" I stood at the edge of the flimsy salt circle and waited for him. It was barely there right now, but it was more protection than the rest of them had currently.

Jake gave me an enormous container of salt, probably used to refill the shakers for the dining table, and I made a thick, solid white line. It was about an inch wide and a centimeter tall with a 15 foot diameter. I didn't want there to be any chance of something getting to us.

I pulled my rosary beads from my pocket and knelt by the edge of the circle as I closed it.

"Ave Maria, gratia plena, dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus frutus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, mater dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen." I prayed laying the beads just within the line.

I looked at the boys and motioned them over as I sprayed each of them with some holy water.

"May the lord your God protect you from the temptations of his devils and strengthen your tether to heaven, his righteous kingdom." I sighed with a quick nod, "Alright, I think that's about all we can do. Let's begin!"

We all took our seats around the table and the boys joined hands for a quick moment of focus and silence before beginning.

"Is there anything here that would like to communicate with us?" Sam asked.

The K-II immediately spiked to red.

It's going to be a long night.