AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Please join hands.” We all did, and she bowed her head. “Lord and Lady, working for me and through me, thank you for your blessings on this day and every day. I ask that you watch over this group as we undertake our work for the night. Dearly departed, angels, ancestors, and guides, lead us in our endeavors and shield us from evil. Hold us in your light and warn us of danger as we shall watch out for you. By the Divine power of three times three, this is my will, so mote it be.”
I said another quick mental prayer of protection and whispered a quick, “Amen,” and we all dropped hands.
It was time to get to work.
Sky and I were taking Aaron with us tonight up into the attic. I glanced at the younger man and saw him pound the last of his energy drink and crack his knuckles. I wasn’t sure how he hadn’t had a heart attack yet with as much caffeine and sugar as he knocked back on a daily basis, but I figured it probably helped that he spent every free waking moment in the gym. The guy was huge. But he was a giant teddy bear and great at his job, and we were lucky to have him.
“Ready to rock, kids?” he asked, and I grinned. He called everybodykidregardless of how senior they were.
Sky finished securing her hair in a bun and stuck her pen in it, then grabbed her Handycam and handed me the Geoport. “Ready, Freddie.”
“All right, let’s do this,” I said and looked around, watching the rest of the cast and crew breaking off into their respective groups to go and tackle the areas they had been assigned.
I had a ball of lead in my stomach. For some reason, the idea of going into the attic made me super uneasy. I wasn’t sure why, but I knew I needed to be on my toes tonight. We headed up the left side of the staircase, having taken the right side last time, and then rounded the landing where the two sides met and took the hall to the door that led to the third-floor stairwell. Like last night, the area felt electrified, and we all said as much and documented what we could before heading up to the third level.
Dev wanted us to do a quick sweep of the other larger bedroom on the third floor tonight before going the rest of the way up to the attic, and I almost felt relieved that we had a bit of a delay from the inevitable. Something about even the idea of that space made me uneasy.
We entered the room, and I took a seat on the bed to get the Geoport set up, setting my walkie on the side table as Aaron and Sky got some shots of the room with their cameras. I heard Sky in the large bathroom, doing a quick recording session for EVP with her normal mini-recorder, and then both she and Aaron came back out.
“Okay, let’s see if anybody feels like chatting,” I said and fired up the Geoport. “Is anybody in here with us?” I asked.
The device bleeped and blarted, the white noise echoing through the speakers a bit as it scanned its radio frequencies, but we didn’t get any intelligent feedback. At least, not yet.
“Lillian, are you here?” I asked, wondering if the starlet was around tonight.
“What were the missing homeowners’ names?” Aaron asked, and I tried to remember.
“Um . . .” Sky said. “I think the first one’s name was Craig. The second Brittany. And . . .”
“Edward,” I said, remembering the name of the last missing homeowner.
“Ed.” Came a voice from the Geoport.
I raised a brow and glanced at Sky. She shrugged and gestured for me to continue. “Edward, is that you?” I asked.
“Dead.”
“Why do I feel like we should be doing that children’s rhyme? This is Fred. Fred is dead,” Aaron asked, and Sky and I laughed.
“We’re sorry that happened to you,” I said and waited to see if we’d get more. When we didn’t, I continued. “Do you remember what happened?”
“Taken.”
“Who took you?” I asked. I wondered if maybe we could find out that he had been kidnapped by a person and not stolen away by a demon. How cool would that be if we could help solve a cold case? Sky would be over the moon.
“Evil.”
Well, that could go either way. People were sometimes the worst kinds of monsters.
Another voice came through the box. “Where’s the child?”
We didn’t always get complete sentences, especially with the Geoport. That was interesting. And it meant that we were dealing with a strong and intelligent presence.
“Who are you? What’s your name?” I asked, hoping to get an identity for the new voice.
“Attic.”
“Good grief. I can’t believe I’m asking this . . . You want us to go to the attic?” Sky said.
