"You must go to the Dagobah System, and seek out-,"
"They have Star Wars in the afterlife?" Rumi interrupted with a cocked eyebrow.
The ghost of her ex-crush/trauma buddy shrugged, "I streamed it while I was up here,"
Rumi huffed, and Jinu continued, "But seriously, if you're right about the Honmoon, then there's someone who might be able to help,"
"Who?"
"I don't know the specifics, Gwi Ma never liked us talking about it, so he was just called 'The Traitor'. He was a Jeosung Saja, an old one, rarely went to the surface but when he did their was always one less hunter afterwards,"
Rumi sucked in a breath through her teeth. Jeosung Saja were perhaps the most dangerous type of Demon, but the Saja Boys had proven that Hunters could dispatch them even when outnumbered. If just one Jeosung Saja had killed multiple hunters…
The thought one of her girls coming up against him made her marks pulse with an angry light.
"What happened to this traitor?"
Jinu shrugged, "About two, maybe three decades ago, Gwi Ma paraded his flaming body throughout the realm before trapping him in a stone in the mortal realm. I don't know exactly how it works but it keeps him there, pressed between the Honmoon and the spiritual borders of the underworld. We called it 'The Millstone'"
"Do you know where it is?"
"I wanna say say somewhere near Bulguska Temple,"
Rumi sucked in a breath, "Then what are we waiting for?"
Juni gave her a confused look, "Your…bandmates?"
Rumi shook her head, walking through him, "If he's killed Hunters before, I can't risk them,"
"What about you?"
Rumi let her eye and fangs loose, "I can pretend to be a Demon, loyal to Gwi Ma. That way I can get him to talk to me,"
"You did hear me say that he's The Traitor, right? He probably won't appreciate one of Gwi Ma's lackeys freeing him,"
"And a trio of Hunters would be better?"
"You'd have trained, corporeal backup," Jinu let his hand phase through a wall to emphasize his point, "And do you really think those two are any less protective of you?"
Rumi clenched a fist, feeling the press of claws against the flesh of her palm, "They didn't almost get me killed by hiding things,"
"So you're going to hide more things from them and yourself killed? Why would you do that to them?"
Rumi didn't respond, not immediately.
"You've seen my soul. You know exactly why,"
"I also have eyes, your eyes, technically, and I know that you know they feel the same,"
Rumi didn't say anything, focusing on keeping the stubborn moisture in her eyes from falling.
"What if Mira did this? Or Zoey?"
"I wouldn't stop you,"
"Because you have my soul, but they have yours,
