Katerina nodded stiffly and awkwardly took her place in the circle, looking incredibly nervous at the prospect of summoning a Familiar. She began to channel her spell, and the mist formed exactly as usual, but to Wolfe, it looked much different. This cloud was lighter, without the blackness that he had seen every other time.
He wondered if it was because he had cleaned out the corruption from her body before it could solidify or if it was something to do with the spell itself. It seemed to be working properly, though, and the nearly white cloud was getting quite thick, though it stayed as a tiny ball right until the end.
It was almost dense enough to look like a tiny moon, glowing in the evening sky, when the spell finally completed, and a tiny Fae appeared in the air in front of her, then began rapidly flying circles around the girl's head and chattering too fast for Wolfe to understand.
