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If asked to explain her thoughts, Erika wasn’t sure she would be able to say anything. This was the first look she had gotten of the ghost. Every other instance where she appeared, she vanished the moment Erika actually managed to focus on her. The pale woman sat, hunched, with her hands in her lap. Her hair hung in long strands all around her shoulders, dangling over her chest, but Erika was more focused on her eyes. Erika could only see them while standing at an angle, peering down between the…-
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04 – Ghost Breakers
“Go, move,” Leslie whispered as he urged the group back. Erika’s mind raced. Her heart thumped. Some headless horseman romped past them and Leslie and Rick barely flinched. Something about the situation scared the two older ghost hunters, which had her on edge in turn. She kept her eyes locked on the withered woman in white as she let Leslie guide her steps backwards. “Fully manifested?” Rick muttered under his breath like he couldn’t believe his own words, his fingers twitching in the…-
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04 – A Breath of Fresh Air
Erika woke with a sudden gasp, confused and disoriented. She sat on her side, just as she had been ten seconds ago. The room around her was no longer The Castle’s operating theater. The last thing she saw was The Orderly, warning her that she would feel a burning sensation in her arm as she added some anesthetic to Erika’s IV line. Erika distinctly recalled feeling a heat in her wrist. She opened her mouth to comment on it, then… The recovery room didn’t look much different from the room Erika…-
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03 – Not So Dangerous Anymore
“Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery is the most haunted graveyard in the world?” Erika read off her phone. “I find that hard to believe.” “Why not?” Daniel asked, sitting alongside Erika in the back seat of Rick’s new van. “It’s a creepy old graveyard.” “It isn’t that old,” Erika corrected, reading from the article. “The first burial was apparently in 1844, not even two hundred years ago. Pick a random graveyard in Europe and I bet they’re older than this place.” Leslie,…-
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03 – A Meeting of the Minds
The asylum hadn’t changed since Erika last visited. A liminal space of branching hallways and corridors stretched off in every direction. Old hardwood floors warped in a way that gave the ground texture, with occasional hard bumps that made Daniel stumble. The occasional incandescent bulbs dangling from a lone cable were the only sources of light, making the shadows loom large in every corner. Stopping at one intersection, Erika looked down the darkened hallway and tried to count the bulbs. She got to…-
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02 – Lures and Bait
Erika spun a pencil around her thumb over and over again, switched to flipping it between her fingers, then spun it around her thumb once more. Growing irritated, she cracked her neck back and forth before snapping the pencil in two. Her watch spun just a little faster as it absorbed the ripples, but a quick pull on time dumped them right where she stood. She looked left and right down the alley, scowling. “Stalker,” she said, pressing down on the walkie-talkie. “Anything?” “Oh…-
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02 – Flying High
“The Terminator didn’t follow you into the future,” Erika said, not as a question, but as a simple statement. She was willing to admit that most of the fight sounded confusing, but she got that part of it. “I don’t believe it can. At least not to the same extent that I am able.” Erika drew in a deep, slow breath as she took in The Fixer’s recounting of their fight with the clockwork angel. Having seen The Fixer’s full robot form in action against Jack, she was surprised they would…-
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01 – Celebrations
Glasses clinked together, cheers echoed around the fancy bar, laughter rang out, and Rick sat with his shoulders hunched and a cardboard tube clutched on his lap. He felt sick. It wasn’t the alcohol—he wasn’t drinking anything but a plain, old-fashioned Coke tonight. He usually avoided drinking in public, maybe having one single light drink, but no more. Tonight was no different, not even with everyone around him in a celebratory mood. The Adjustment stood on a table, knocking aside plates of…-
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