The Ghost Host: Episode 2 (The Ghost Host Series) by Gladden DelSheree

Author:Gladden, DelSheree [Gladden, DelSheree]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: DelSheree Gladden
Published: 2016-12-22T05:00:00+00:00

19: Powerless

(Griffin)

Timothy is doing amazingly well, considering everything he’s been through. Being back home with his mother has helped. Echo spending time with him even more so. Understanding is a luxury to people outside the accepted norm. Having it heals many wounds. Despite being inconsolable during the two days Echo was recovering, he now babbles happily from the chair next to her as he explains the stories his father told him. Kyran’s analysis of the boy’s stories stopped cold when Echo was injured. No one, not even Malachi, complained when he hovered over Echo after her release from the hospital instead of jumping back on research.

Even though everyone in Echo’s small group has been well aware of Kyran’s crush on Echo for a while, I don’t think many of her friends understood the depth of his feelings for her until watching him come so close to losing her. I can’t say I was particularly shocked. Surprisingly enough, neither was Malachi, and he never once tried to interfere or complain about him watching over her.

The only aspect of Kyran’s behavior that has surprised me in the last few days is that he allowed Echo to convince him not to call in sick and work his scheduled days. I wonder if he’s regretting that as much as she is.

Outwardly, Echo appears worn out, but even tempered. She listens to Timothy’s explanations, takes notes, and watches her little friend draw pictures—crude versions of hieroglyphs and Egyptian gods. Echo is good at pretending to be fine. It’s enough to trick Timothy. He’s the only one. Mrs. Bridger glances worriedly at Echo every time she passes through the room. She sees how much the injury and dealing with her parents—who left this morning under protest and threats to return and take her home at the next sign of trouble—has depleted her strength. I’m trying to be patient, but her hidden fears and mounting sense of impending failure are making it difficult not to question her, and nearly impossible to focus on my own work.

Echo is technically classified as a medium, a person capable of communicating with ghosts in one form or another. Some mediums have dreams, others see mental images in themselves or others, some feel or hear messages, and a smaller percentage write or draw messages. In many ways, Echo fits multiple categories—which is odd in itself—but in other ways she doesn’t quite fit any of them.

Insistent that he’s right, Timothy refuses to consider that he might have been the one to bring himself and Echo out of the Field of Reeds. He can’t explain how she did it, only that she did. Rather than feeling any sort of relief at the idea of being able to control their departure from the devolving realm, it’s made her withdraw from the topic. At first I didn’t understand why. Now, as I consider her uniqueness even among the unique, it’s one more sign to her that she isn’t what she should be.

Mrs. Bridger startles me from my thoughts when she sets down several glasses of water.

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