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That one both men saw.
“Oh, fuck,” Tony said, as Bark was up and losing his shit as he leapt off of his lap and lunged for the corner where the shadows had been.
“Did you guys see that shadow?” Tony asked. “Or am I losing it?”
Oh, no, they saw it.
Definitely.
When Bark stopped growling, she whistled, and he returned, jumping onto Tony’s lap again.
This place was hella scary.
That was for sure.
“What did you see, Gabs?” Finn asked. “You absolutely saw something.”
She had.
“Ceit and that same shadow that went after her before. It’s chasing her. It’s trying to keep her from talking to us.”
Well, shit.
“We need to figure out who that is, and do it tomorrow,” Finn admitted. “Because that feels like a big piece of the mystery. That shadow doesn’t want the truth to come out.”
On that, they all agreed.
Honestly, they had no choice.
Gabby picked up the journal they found in the tower, and flipped to the last page. When she handed it to Tony, he read over it.
“Okay, well, at least we know that the family survived, and the ghost thing is a legit issue. These dead have been going to war for a long time.”
That seemed to be accurate.
“Well, Ceit was killed. She’s a vengeful spirit. She has every right to be cranky.”
They guessed.
“What’s the plan?” Tony asked. “I know that my work here is almost done. I was sent here to put Ceit back, and analyze the victims. I’ve done all the photographs and scans. Oh and I sent a scan of Ceit’s face to Blue,” he said.
The other man was confused.
“Who is Blue? Or what is Blue?” he asked.
Gabby explained.
“Doctor Blue Bennett is a forensic artist. She gives people their faces back. She’ll print out a three-D model of the skull, and with markers and clay, give us an image of Ceit.”
That was nice of them to do.
“There are no pictures of her,” Tony said. “She’s been erased from the castle, and buried outside of it. Someone didn’t want her in here. She deserves to be seen, and maybe that will help calm the energy here.”
They all agreed there.
When Finn’s phone chimed, it lit up, and they could all see it on the table.
On the screen saver, there was a pretty woman, and he was up close and personal with her as he was grinning.
