Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband

"Is that a finger?" Luna asked, with a gasp.

Phoebe nodded.

"A human bone that was used as a talisman, this is the third case i have seen with this kind of thing. I am starting to think that the source is the same. Let’s see what this one is for...."

She turned the feathers over, looking at them keenly for a good five minutes with a frown on her face. By her side, the Saxon spirit maintained perfect silence, waiting for Phoebe to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

Just when the spirit was beginning to think that Phoebe would not understand, she figured it out and gasped loudly.

"Wealth transfer!" she exclaimed.

On thinking about it even more, the Elithera’s did face significant financial troubles after the death of Duncan. Within three years, they went from a top five family to paupers.

Phoebe turned her head to Luna as she recalled the images on the news of her pale lifeless corpse that had been found floating in a swimming pool at a dingy motel. Her cause of death was suicide.

"Hey, does your family have enemies, not just one that would want you all dead but one that wants your wealth too. It has to be somebody close to the family that managed to ..."

Yin flew in and Phoebe was interrupted. Black kitty similarly returned three seconds after the raven.

"What did you find?" she asked the pets.

Both regurgitated and emitted what they had found in Duncan’s house and office. Yin had brought a triangular shaped glass with three coins inside that were attached to each other with a red string that was passing through the middle of a hole in each coin.

Black kitty had brought something he dug up in the garden of Duncan’s house. It was an old dried up human heart and within was some hair and two different dates of birth on a tiny folded talisman paper plus a small wooden puppet that had been been embedded with silver needles from head to toes. It was dressed in clothes made from silk and designed to look as human as possible.

There were strands of hair sewn into the top of the head and nail clippings glued onto the fingers. It was an eerie looking doll that gave off a creepy aura, especially around the eyes. Small red rubies had been used, spelled with some dark energy which made it seem as if they were alive.

"The puppet was made with wood harvested from a tree that was grown in cursed soil. The hair and nails belong to the one on the bed. As long as the needles are stuck in the wooden doll, his own body remain immobile, and it will shrivel and dry up like the wood until he dies." The Saxon spirit shared.

"Good heavens!" Phoebe exclaimed.

Her shock was shared by the people in the room that had never seen anything like this outside of a horror movie.

"Really, so brutal." Phoebe muttered.

"What is this?" An alarmed Luna asked.

Phoebe picked up the puppet and faced Duncan who was the bed.

"This is him, your father, the hair and nails on this puppet were got from him. Even the silk clothes it is wearing were cut from his clothes, you will have to check and see which ones. You will also need to find out who took his hair and nails, it has to be someone close enough to move around your father undetected, like a servant or a relative. I am doing my part, you guys have to be yours."

"What is wrong with my husband? What does the puppet do? Is it something that is being used to control him?" Duncan’s wife questioned Phoebe.

She was rather calmer than Phoebe anticipated, no hysteria and panic. What was the deal with this entire family? Were the mafia rumors true?

"Somebody did all this to transfer wealth from your family to themselves, directly using Mr. Duncan here as an anchor."

She handed the piece of paper with the two dates of birth to Luna as she seemed to be in charge now.

"Find out whose date of birth that is, whoever it is, they are responsible for this. Have your companies been experiencing any financial difficulties?"

Luna nodded.

"We have already secretly sold off two hotels this year and the Riverside casino is struggling to stay afloat. We were fined one hundred thirty million by the FIRS."

FIRS was the Fog International Revenue Service, the responsible government organization for collecting taxes.

"We are also being sued by some suppliers for breaching contracts which is unexpected because we never breach contracts." Luna’s voice thinned as she mentioned some of the troubles the family was facing. "Our sea food suppliers cut us off two months ago and some of the best chefs in our hotels quit. Last week, the hotel we own in Sea city caught fire, ten people died, we spent millions compensating the families and paying off damages."

"More than three special recipes from our restaurants have been leaked to other hotels." Luna’s second uncle mentioned.

"The land we acquired in Eagle country, an ancient tomb was found beneath and we cannot use it anymore. We spent one billion on it’s acquisition and all that money is...." Luna broke off and gasped. "It has been one problem after another and each one has drained us financially, we have lost thirty four billion so far."

Phoebe shrugged, "Like i said, someone has been transferring the wealth of your family out. You should find out who has been benefiting the most from the losses you have been making. It could be a single person or a group of people working together."

She got a sickness ward paper talisman and placed it on Duncan’s chest. It seared loudly, like something was being fried, it turned into ash and the ash disappeared into his body.

Not done, Phoebe got the ceramic bowl, poured out the wet sage and tossed everything Yin and Black kitty had brought back.

"It’s too small." she muttered.

This was because she needed to burn the feathers as well.

"Mmm, a talisman will do." She looked at Luna’s second uncle. "Help me pile up the feathers." 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

He did as she said, Phoebe dumped the heart, puppets, hair strands and the paper with the two dates of birth on the pile. She threw two fire talismans on the pile and everything was set ablaze.

Her work was still not done, she pointed two fingers of her right hand to her chest and gathered some energy.

"Heaven and earth gather, let magic slip, break the seal." she yelled, and shot the gathered energy at the puppet.

Silver needles fell out of the doll and suddenly loud noise came from the heart monitor attached to Duncan.