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between us.
"Who you be, girl?" she demanded.
"My name is Ruby," I said quickly, and shifted
my eyes to Beau, who was still smiling impishly. "Nina is warding off any evil with the voodoo
power in that little sack, aren't you, Nina?"
She looked at him and at me and then dropped
the sack to her chest again.
"This here, five finger grass," she said. "It can
ward off any evil that five fingers can bring, you
hear?"
I nodded.
"Who this be?" she asked Beau.
"It's Gisselle's secret sister," he said.
"Obviously, twin sister," he added. Nina stared at me
again.
"How do you know that?" she asked, taking
another step back. "My grandmere, she told me once
about a zombie made to look like a woman. Everyone
stuck pins in the zombie and the woman screamed in
pain until she died in her bed."
Beau roared.
"I'm not a zombie doll," I said. Still suspicious,
Nina stared.
"I daresay if you stick pins in her, Nina, she'll
be the one to scream, not Gisselle." His smile faded
and he grew serious. "She's traveled here from
Houma, Nina, but on the way to the house, she had a
bad experience. Someone tried to attack her in an
alley."
Nina nodded as if she already knew.
