Page 122 of The Valiant Knight
As he lay on the side of the hole, staring in, Tony began pulling pieces of stone from the hole to uncover what was remaining.
And he didn’t like how the body was handled. She’d deserved so much more peace than this hastily-filled grave.
As he moved around the hole, Tony started taking pictures of the grave, and the remains.
Gabby was curious.
“She’s not in a box,” she said. “I don’t see remnants of any wood whatsoever. Even in the sixteen hundreds, they would have had ways to preserve a burial vessel.”
She was right.
“They did have ways. The box that was built would have had some soot and ash rubbed into it, and that would keep the wood from rotting.”
He swept away some of the dirt with a fine bristle brush, and what he saw didn’t make him happy.
Not.
At.
All.
“She looks like she was put in here and covered with stones.”
Oh, boy.
“Uh, that’s never good,” Gabby said. She knew that Tony wasn’t going to be happy. He was big on sanctity of the final resting place. “No wonder the poor woman was haunting the place. She was tossed into a hole haphazardly, and covered in stones before buried. She’s lucky she got the stone to mark it. Someone did her dirty.”
Yes, yes, they did.
All around them, the trees came alive, and that’s when they heard it.
The wind began whipping up, and there was laughter in the trees.
Male.
Laughter.
It sent shivers across their bodies, and made the hair on the back of their necks stand up.
That was ominous.
Around the grave, it got chilly, and they could see their breath.
For Finn, he got that sick feeling in the pit of his stomach. He’d heard that laughter before.
It was just two hours ago when he’d pulled Gabby from the water. On his way down to get her, that was the voice he heard.
“What was that?” Finn asked, turning in a circle. It was so creepy that he’d actually put his hand on his gun.
For protection.
“I have no idea,” Graham said. “But I didn’t like it.”
Shit.
That was creepy as hell.
From where he stood, Tony didn’t like it. He was a believer in science, but he knew from being at Elizabeth’s when they had a spook show up, Trey, that there could be things that science just couldn’t explain.
