Page 124 of The Valiant Knight
Yeah, they did.
When the last of the bones was put away, they heard something again, and all three of them turned to scan the area to see what it was.
“Shit,” Gabby said, as Finn moved in front of her to protect her. “Did you see that?” she asked.
He hadn’t, but he’d heard something.
“It sounded like the same laughter before. It was definitely a man,” he admitted.
On that, she agreed.
“I’ve heard that voice before.”
Tony and Graham moved closer, and they scanned the trees. They didn’t hear or see anything, but it was clear that the other two had.
“What is it?” Tony asked.
Gabby explained.
“When I fell through the ice, I felt like I was being pulled down. I heard a voice. I couldn’t understand the words, but I heard something. It was that voice.”
Yeah, that wasn’t creepy at all.
Graham stared at Finn, expecting him to say something, but he didn’t. He was curious if it was the same voice he’d heard.
“Let’s get this done,” Tony suggested.
Well, no one was going to argue that.
When the winds died down, the two men began shoveling dirt into the hole as quickly as possible.
Meanwhile, Tony was kneeling next to the bag of bones, and the whole time, he was staring at the skull.
The look on his face was a familiar one. He was trying to figure something out.
“What is it?” Gabby asked.
He should wait to confirm with Chris, but it was really bothering him.
“Look at the facial trauma,” he said. “We know for a fact that she fell onto her back. Bones don’t lie.”
Gabby had worked for the FBI long enough to know what was tripping him up.
If she landed on her back, why was the front of her skull damaged too?
Tony was leaning toward a new hypothesis.
Something had hit Ceit in the face. She couldn’t have fallen backward and forward simultaneously.
Gravity was gravity.
The laws of physics didn’t change.
“So you think she wasn’t jumping?” she asked. “And instead something else happened?”
He nodded his head.
“I’ll call Chris for confirmation, but I think she was hit in the face.”
