Mayor Garver shook his
head as sat back down.
“You’re hearing things
old man,” he said to himself as he sat down behind the desk again.
Dorothea felt a tingle of
nervous energy flow from the mayor and knew it was time to kick it up a notch.
She might be in love with him, but she was loyal to Elise. Her job now was to
haunt, the mayor could fall in love with her later.
She walked over to the
bookcase and looked at the globe. There were so many places she longed to see.
Maybe she and the mayor could travel the world together once they were entwined
as spirits. She focused her energy on the globe and made it spin slowly.
The mayor looked over and
she let out another audible giggle as his eyes widened. Mayor Garver slowly got
to his feet and walk to the globe. Dorothea floated back so he would step
through her. That was a sensation that would send shivers down both their
spines and she absolutely hated it when people walked through her.
He held up hand above the
globe as if trying to find a current of air that would explain why the globe
had turned on its own. Dorothea glided to the desk and brushed a stack of
papers with her hand, sending them floating through the air and giggled again
as the mayor’s face turned as white as his hair.
Just as she was about to
make a pencil swirl around on his desk a brisk knock pounded on the front door,
making the mayor shout out in surprise.
“Coming!” he yelled as if
his life depended on seeing another person at his door. “Coming!”
Dorothea followed him to
the front door, hoping it was another founder to scare and was surprised to see
Elise standing there. She couldn’t see Rosemary, but she could feel her
presents. There was only one reason Rosemary would leave the library and that
was because she had to.
“Mayor, good you’re home,”
said Elise. “I was hoping we could talk about the innkeeper, Cage Martin.”
“Of course, please come
in,” said the mayor a little too quickly and Dorothea giggled again knowing it
was because he was too frightened to be alone. “Did you hear that?”
“Hear what?” asked Elise,
shooting her eyes in Dorothea’s direction with a look that plead Dorothea to
stop for just a moment.
Mayor Garver shook his
head. “Giggling. I keep hearing giggling.”
“Oh,” said Elise with a
smile, “the Anderson kids are playing hide-and-seek around the neighborhood. I
bet you heard them.”
“Yes, of course,” said
the mayor looking a bit relieved.
Dorothea frowned. She was
doing what Elise had asked of her and now Elise was making excuses for her
haunting. Before she could do anything else thought, she felt a small tug on
her sleeve and knew it was Rosemary gliding past her. Dorothea followed
Rosemary’s trail into the small den where the mayor liked to watch TV as the
mayor led Elise into his office.
“What’s going on?”
Dorothea whispered.
“We think there’s a
hunter in town,” said Rosemary, cutting right to the chase. “And he could kill
us all!”
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