The Ghost Light by Kat Shepherd

Author:Kat Shepherd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Imprint

CHAPTER

13

EVERYONE SAT IN silence for a moment as Ethan’s words sunk in. Finally, Clio spoke. “What do you mean?”

Ethan turned on his flashlight and stood up. “I mean that whatever supernatural entity is here, it’s not something I know how to communicate with.”

“Well, can’t you try?” Maggie turned on her own flashlight and stood up, too.

Ethan shrugged helplessly. “Sorry, Maggie, but I’m strictly a ghost guy. Asking me to communicate with something else is like asking a Mandarin speaker to suddenly turn around and translate Spanish. I can’t do it.”

“Yeah, but what about animals? You can communicate with them!” Maggie said.

Ethan sighed. “Yeah, okay, fine. Then I can confidently tell you that the woman in red is not an animal, either.”

“I know that,” Maggie said, exasperated, “but the point is if you can communicate with both of those, maybe you can do more. Maybe you have hidden talents you don’t even know about still.”

“Don’t push it, Maggie,” Clio said. “If he says he can’t do it, he can’t do it.” She stood up and started walking down the row toward the lobby with the others close behind her. “I’m going to text my auntie to come pick us up.”

Maggie trailed behind. “Wait, so we’re just gonna give up? What about Emily? What about Juniper?”

Clio flicked on the house lights. “Nobody’s saying anything about giving up. We just need to hold a beat and think about what we know before we do anything else.” She paused and looked around at the others, dropping her voice. “But since we don’t know exactly what we’re dealing with or how dangerous she is, maybe we should get out of here first.” Clio led them through the lobby and out the front door, where they stood shivering under the awning. She turned to lock the padlock on the door. “Don’t worry, Mags,” she said. “We’re your friends, okay? We got this.”

Tanya flipped the collar up on her long coat and absentmindedly spiked her short hair. “Okay. I think we can agree at this point that there’s something supernatural in there.” The others nodded. “And it’s obviously not a ghost or a changeling, and it’s probably not the Night Queen. So our next step is to find out what it is.”

“Looks like it’s research time again.” Clio rubbed her hands together. “Who’s up for a visit to the library tomorrow after school?”

Maggie made a gagging face. “No way! I’m not getting stuck behind one of those boring microfilm machines again.”

“But I thought you were the one who’s so gung ho to get to the bottom of this,” Clio said. “And to do that we’ve all got to be willing to put in the work.”

“I know that,” Maggie snapped. “And I’ve done just as much work as you have! But this time I have a better idea.” She turned to Tanya. “If we borrowed some of the equipment from the projector room upstairs, do you think you could get it to work?”

Tanya nodded. “For sure, but what

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