"Unless he is the one we smelled back then at Lockhart on the night Ruth was rescued. He found a way to prolong his life somehow using dark magic. The souls that he consumes along with borrowing the life force of others and drinking the blood of pure magic beasts. That is how he stays alive. Look," It pointed at the dangling pendant around his neck. "The ring on the chain around his neck is the same one that Obed was going to be buried with."
Phoebe put together her own facts, drawing things from her past life to this life. "Do you think that he is the master that they were talking about?"
"I vote yes." Zephyra said. "Right from the beginning, old magic has been involved in this mess. It took old magic to lock up Ravana, old magic must be involved in her waking. All the old witches have passed, and old knowledge is gone."
"All but him. Oh my God!" Phoebe's hand flew to her mouth.
