I attended school with Dr. Landon Sikes. I know, you want to hear all about him—he had that magnetic charm. But this story is about me.

Back when Landon taught me to cross through the veil into the spirit world, things were already changing; my talent of calling spectres across into the world of the living was just beginning to be demonized. My teachers gave up trying to get me to stop invoking and cross over instead, but with Landon’s help—and a lot of encouragement from my grandmother beyond the veil—I was able to pass.

That’s why I use spirit invocation to teach my ghost-inclined students to cross the veil. Even though social pressure to stop invoking spectres is growing every day. Even though I could lose my job for it. Hence, the inquest. And what I did there.