Page 108 of The Valiant Knight
It was also one that they needed to find out.
“I’m going to head to the crypt,” she said, getting up. “If we find anything, I’ll let you know. Tony said he saw something, but it could be anything with him. A bug, a slug, a bone…”
He laughed.
“Yeah, he’s something.”
That he was.
Going around the counter, she went up on her toes and gave Graham a kiss on the cheek.
“You’re a good guy looking out for your friend. He’s lucky to have you,” she admitted.
That made him blush.
Not because she was a woman, but because he wasn’t a good guy. He was a struggling guy, and with each day, it was getting harder and harder.
Watching people fall in love, when he knew that he’d never have that again put him in a spiral.
At some point, he’d crash and burn.
“Thank you for that, and be careful,” he said.
Oh, she would.
Gabby headed down the hall, right toward the corridor that led to the crypt. When she finally got there, she found Tony waiting for her.
He was sitting on the edge of Duncan’s crypt, pointing down. The bones were out, and back in the storage room on a table so he could document, scan, and take pictures.
“What did you find?” she asked, looking into the crypt. On some very old paper, she saw what looked to be a page from a book.
That’s when it hit her.
It was very familiar to what she had just been shown by Graham.
They had found another page.
“Oh! That has to be one of the pages that were ripped out. We need to get it, see what it says, and put it with the others.”
Tony figured she’d see it that way.
“I just saw two other pages that the construction crews found. Graham showed me. We’re finding clues, Tony! This is so much fun!”
He loved a good mystery too. All of them did, or they wouldn’t be scientists.
“I can lower you down, and help pull you back up when you have it.”
That worked for her.
Luckily, they weren’t that deep. Since it was a stone-like vault, carved years ago, they didn’t have the whole‘six feet deep’rule.
Climbing over the side of the crypt, she took Tony’s hands, and he lowered her down, so she landed softly on her feet. Then, he shined the flashlight into the abyss so she could retrieve the paper.
It was a good thing she wasn’t freaked out by spiders. There were a few in there.
“Ignore my new friends,” he said. “They are coming back with me.”
She stared up at him.
