Lizzy Bennet Ghost Hunter by Jemma Thorne

Author:Jemma Thorne [Thorne, Jemma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

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That night, as a form of distraction more than anything else, I opened the books I had borrowed from Lady Leticia. I wasn’t sure what I was looking for, but as I flipped through the pages I did find a few things that interested me.

Possession: when a spirit or other entity takes control of a human person’s body.

This sounded familiar. To be honest, I had no true understanding of Anne de Bourgh and how I should expect her to behave. But that was just it – she was so inconsistent. And then there was the darkness that I saw surrounding her. So it made sense to me that there was something that was not Anne de Bourgh’s own spirit that was making her behave as she did. Add in Mrs. Jenkinson’s behavior and the odd twists there and I thought I had a perpetrator.

As I perused the different types of spirits that had been encountered in the human world, an entry there caught my eye as well. A wraith was not the spirit of someone formerly human. It was some other energy, which could be twisted and manipulated with skill.

What magnitude of skill were we dealing with in Mrs. Jenkinson? I had no way of knowing.

Clarice’s spirit appeared at my bedside. I was leaning against the pillows with my brow furrowed over my reading. I looked up at her.

“What more does it say about wraiths?”

“Not much.”

“So…an external energy that Mrs. Jenkinson is manipulating? How would she ever have learned to do such a thing?”

“What do we know of her? She could have any history at all.”

Clarice nodded. It was moot to continue in this direction. We didn’t have enough to go on. “Have you read up on animal sacrifice yet?”

She said it as if she was asking if I’d had my morning tea. I shivered. “No. Not sure I have the stomach for it.”

“Oh, come now! Hold your head high, my Lizzy – there aren’t many who could see what you’ve seen and go on seeking more of it.”

With a grimace, I opened another book where I knew I’d seen mention of the ritual sacrifice of animals. I wasn’t sure what help it would be to us, but maybe it could help us understand Mrs. Jenkinson’s motives.

I read aloud, though it didn’t seem Clarice needed me to do so at all. I found the fact that she was constantly there in the background, while I was reading or just thinking, faintly disturbing.

“Some traditions and rituals call for the sacrifice of animals, which are offered to obtain or retain the grace of a particular deity figure. Such traditions exist around the world and at the roots of many branches of religion. Ritual sacrifice can include all or part of the animal or animals, including many instances of the offering of animal blood—” I shuddered and stopped reading aloud.

Clarice cleared her throat. I thought she would tell me to go on, but instead she said. “Let us go for a walk in the morning, dear.

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