Donn's Legacy by Caryn Larrinaga

Author:Caryn Larrinaga
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Tree Press

CHAPTER NINETEEN

We made the empty apartment our main base of operations for the investigation. Once the cameras and instruments were all set up, we filmed one of the most classic elements of a Soul Searchers episode: Yuri’s lecture.

In documentary terms, the shot was called a talking head. Yuri sat with his back against a neutral background—in this case, a section of blank wall where a future resident might put a dresser—and addressed someone just off camera. The viewer only saw his torso and head, hence the terminology. But to me, it always felt like Yuri was delivering a lecture in one of his history classes—an engaging one, full of death and tragedy, but a lecture nonetheless. It would later be cut into sections and sprinkled throughout the episode, but we filmed everything he knew about the allegedly haunted location in one large chunk.

Before Kit left, giving Yuri someone to look at had been her job. Now it was mine.

“Before its renovation into a restaurant and apartments, the building anchoring The Enclave was one of many boarding houses for underpaid and overworked iron miners,” Yuri told me as the camera rolled. “The property was owned by the Bishop Mining Company, who also employed the miners. This was a common tactic at the time. Mining companies would deduct the cost of their employees’ lodging, food, tools, and more from their paychecks. Frederick Bishop was largely considered fair compared to some of the more notorious mining barons, but even with a paternalistic employer, the life of an iron miner was difficult and dangerous.”

Because he was talking to me, I kept wanting to break in with questions. I had to purse my lips to stop myself from interrupting his flow to ask where the other boarding houses were and how closely intertwined the mining and psychic communities were.

“As the economic landscape of Donn’s Hill shifted, the need for the boarding houses dried up. The mining company sold the land to residential developers, and most of the original buildings were demolished. But due to its proximity to the industrial and manufacturing district, this particular neighborhood was the last to continue catering to Bishop Mining Company employees. After the company formally shut down their boarding program, the buildings here sat vacant for decades.

“An empty property such as this can be a magnet for trouble from both the living and the dead. It would hardly be surprising for the sightings reported by the residents here to be genuine. But we need to find out if there’s really something going on or if the staff of the Ace of Cups is concocting more than cocktails.”

He waited a beat, then nodded and stood. Noah gave him a high five, which was something I had never seen Yuri give or receive.

“That was great,” Noah said. “What’s next?”

Yuri nodded to me. “Now you’ll see why I begged Mac to join our team.”

My cheeks warmed as Noah, Fang, and Alexi all turned their eyes on me at once. I wasn’t used to having this many strangers with me at this stage of an investigation.

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