Page 167 of The Valiant Knight
Then, he noticed she looked rattled.
“What happened?” he asked.
Gabby was talking really quickly. She told him the whole story, like she’d just told Finn.
He looked skeptical, despite what they’d all felt near Ceit’s grave.
“Really? I want to see the ghost,” he said.
Above them, the one single, solitary hanging light flickered, and the air around them got cold. They could see their breaths again, and that seemed to happenRIGHTbefore a ghost appeared.
“Or maybe I don’t,” he added. “That gave me goosebumps.”
Oh, it gave them all goosebumps.
There were moments when the castle was creepy, and now was one of those moments.
Tony told them how the lights flickered whenever he said the word‘malevolent’.
And sure as shit, the second he said it, they did it again.
“See?” he asked.
Yeah, this was wild, and not in a good way.
Now, Tony was curious.
“What are you going to do next?” he asked. “Because we already moved Ceit, and all that’s left is to put her in the crypt and put the slab back on top. I’ll be finished scanning her later.”
She considered it.
Like with Gryphen and Ian, she knew this was going to come down to research.
Since they had a new name, Ciarán, she was going to start there. Maybe the town archives would have something she could use.
“I have to get to the church, and see what I can find out tomorrow. We need to figure out who Ciarán Begbie is. I think hekilled Ceit. She wouldn’t have given me that letter. She is afraid of something.”
Tony pointed out one thing.
“Said a ghost,” he said. “Can we trust a ghost to give us answers?” he asked. “Because that’s a whole lot of gambling that could be problematic. What if we’re wrong, and that pisses off the dead?”
Not far away, a painting fell off the wall. It hit the ground so hard, they all jumped.
“What the hell?” Finn asked.
Apparently, the dead were stirred up, and the living were the cause of it.
They had to find a way to de-escalate it, and that was likely by getting the truth out.
They were staring at the painting.
“See?” Tony asked, his eyes huge. “I’m totally writing a paper on this. I don’t know how I’m doing it, but I am. This is wild.”
Yeah, Finn just wanted to get this handled so they could get the hell out of here.
He was worried about all of their safety, including Graham’s.
After all, he lived here. This place would test anyone’s sanity.
