Ian went there.
“Duncan, did you want us to find the painting?” he asked point-blank.
The apparition lowered the hood on his cape, and they could see him, but he was mostly translucent. He had a beard,and there was a slash down his cheek from a sword wound that had healed with a scar.
His body was clothed in his tartan plaid with a sword on his hip. This was the closest they’d gotten to his ghost. Oh, he appeared, but he faded away more time than not.
Duncan continued to point at the paintings.
So Ian kept asking questions. He didn’t know when he’d get another chance.
“Where are your lover’s bones?”
As soon as he asked the question, the lights in the crypt went out, and the energy spiked.
Michael felt Graham being yanked away from him, and he yelped.
“Graham!” he shouted, as they tried to get the portable lights to go back on.
“I’m okay,” he said, not next to them.
When the lights came on, of their own recognizance, Graham wasn’t in the room with them. He was on his ass in the tunnel they’d just come out of.
“Did you fall?” Gryphen asked. “All the way back there?”
He wished.
“I was shoved. Hard.”
Normally, no one would bat an eye, but as of late, since with Gabby and Finn, the ghosts were getting…rough.
Truthfully, that wasn’t a good thing because someone was going to get hurt.
Now, Gabby was curious.
“Do you think Duncan pushed you?” she asked.
He wasn’t sure.
Only, he was freaked out.
“Whatever pushed me was strong. It felt like it ran into me, and slammed me to the ground.
Know who was worried?
Michael.
“I felt you being pulled away from me, and there was a cold breeze,” he admitted.
When he held out his hand, Michael reached for it, and that’s when they heard the sad sobs of someone crying.
Everyone looked around.
Duncan was gone, the chill in the air was gone, and the people there were worried.
As Michael helped him up, he had a suggestion.
“Maybe we should put these paintings someplace safe, and regroup away from that corridor and this crypt. I don’t like that this whole thing is taking a turn for the worse. Something is getting rough.”
