Page 2 of Hallow Hill at Halloween: Part Two

“Why? What will happen?”

“Something bad. Like they can’t come back to it if it moved. Even a little.”

“So…”

“So. What?”

Osocles leaned closer to Piapetos and whispered. “So, you’re thinking if we moved the body, she’d be… dead?” Piapetos could hear the excitement pick up in Osocles’s voice. “And we’d be done with this!”

“I’m not thinking that. We can’t take a chance like that. You know the higher ups have got eyes everywhere.”

As he finished that sentence, a crow flew by and cawed. “See?” he said.

“We don’t know that was…”

“We don’t know it wasn’t.”

“You’ve got me there.”

“We can do is hope that somebody else gets curious and gives her a good nudge.”

Piapetos sighed. “This being gone thing. You think this is why they’re giving her to that court to be judged.”

“Maybe. Do you think she heard us talking about that.”

“Shhhh. Are you trying to get us strapped to a cliff with an eagle eating our livers for eternity?”

Osocles didn’t need to mull that over. “No. Why? Did that happen to somebody?”

“Yeah. Somebody from middle management gave fire to humans and the higher ups were jumped up about it for ages.”

“Oh. Well.”

“Anyway. Just keep quiet about it all. We don’t know a thing.”

“We actually do know some things.”

“No. We don’t.”

Osocles paused for a second. “We don’t know anything.”

“Exactly.”

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