Right?
“Walk me around. I feel something malevolent lurking here, and I’m trying to get a vibe about the curse. Can I just head toward it, or do you want to escort me?” Sarah asked.
They were all curious.
“The owners are giving you full access,” Graham said. “So lead us.”
Yeah, she was ready for this.
“Absolutely,” she said, putting her bag down, and moving toward the direction they’d come at the back of the castle.
As she walked, her fingers were on the wall, and she ran them along the stone as if she was trying to read it.
Like Braille.
In the kitchen, she looked around, like she was trying to find someone, but then headed toward the tower stairs.
All six of them followed, and no one said a word. As she walked past all of the floors with the suites, she made it to the top of the stairs.
There, she pulled on the ring that opened the door.
And it wouldn’t open.
“Something doesn’t want me in there,” she said. “It’s holding the door shut.”
That was bizarre.
The door didn’t lock, but then again, this happened to Gabby weeks ago when the malevolent spirit trapped her in there.
“Let me in,” she said. “You have no power here.”
As soon as she said it, the door swung open with very minimal effort.
Yeah, that was creepy.
As she walked in, she went right for the boarded-up window that Ceit used to end her life, and that Gabby nearly fell out of sleepwalking.
“She was murdered,” she said, staring at the space. Turning around, she held her arms out, and they all stared at her.
“She said that she was going to take her life, but her father came here first. He found her up here, and screamed at her.”
They all listened.
“Then, he tried choking her to death.”
She grabbed her neck.
“He was so angry. He called her all kinds of names, and said that she was a disappointment. That he should have given the knight the better daughter. Not the old one.”
No one said a word.
This was all interesting, but some of it could have been researched.
Sarah touched her face.
“He picked up something heavy, and hit her in the face with it. It was a piece of chain. He hit her in the face, and she fell backward out the window.”
And there it was.
