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“Family,” Lark called. “Love.”
“Holy shit,” Hanlen said and kept writing.
Thiswasgetting good.
“You are Hanlen’s family?”
“No,” Lark said. The answer confused me, so I pushed a little deeper.
“No, you’re not her family? Or no to something else?” Sometimes, the spirit box gave words or sentences that didn’t fit with the questions asked, so you had to try and drill down a little further.
“I’m not,” Lark said. “She is.”
Huh . . .
“So you’re not Hanlen’s family but someone else here is. Okay, that’s good. Who are you?”
“Soldier,” Lark said through the walkie.
“You’re a soldier?” I asked. “Are you who the guests refer to as The Colonel? Are you who people have seen around the property?”
“Yes,” Lark said, channeling our soldier ghost. “Died here. No harm.”
“You mean no harm?” I asked.
“No harm,” Lark repeated.
“Good, that’s good,” I said. “Then why are you here? Why do you remain?” I asked.
“Like it.”
“Okay, that’s as good a reason as any.” I laughed and looked over at Hanlen to see a smile on her face, too.
“Who is the woman with you?” I asked. “Not Larken, whoever you were talking about earlier.”
“Friend,” Lark said.
“Your friend?”
“Your friend,” Lark said. I wasn’t sure if The Colonel was echoing me or if that was an answer.
Lark came through the walkie again. “Dev, I’m seeing a beautiful woman in my head. Braids. Young. Maybe early twenties.”
All right, we were getting somewhere.
“Would the woman like to come through?”
“Can’t,” Lark said, once again speaking for The Colonel.
“She can’t?” I asked. “Why not?”
“Not able.”
I wondered what could be stopping a spirit from communicating. We hadn’t uncovered any malevolent entities as yet. Even the feisty one in the cold storage section was merely disruptive and a bit of a prankster. No dark energies should be keeping any others from coming through.
“Is there anything we can do to help?” I asked.
“Don’t know,” Lark said.
