Orpheus - Haunting the Dead.pdf - Dice

HAUNTING THE DEAD
SETH LINDBERG
Anders glanced around. The parking lot was now
mostly empty, the streetlights overhead were flashing
on as twilight turned slowly to night. He felt suddenly
very wary, like he was being watched. “Very. This thing
gets stranger all the time.”
A-S-K-Y-O-U
“Yeah?”
W-H-Y-T-H-E-Y-D-O-N-T-W-A-N-T-U-S-H-A-R-M-I-N-G-I-T
“They don’t want us to harm it? You sure it’s not the
other way around?”
A long pause. Then the planchette began to move
again.
A-B-O-U-T-L-I-L-A
“Yeah?”
T-H-I-N-K-M-A-Y-B-E-O-R-P-H-E-U-S-H-A-S-H-E-R
“Orpheus has her?” He shook his head, staring at
the board. “Why would they do that?”
M-A-Y-B-E-S-H-E-K-N-O-W-S-O-M-E-T-H-I-N-G
Anders frowned. “Could they actually take her like
that?”
T-H-I-N-K-S-O
He glanced back at the parking lot, the lights of the
office building. It seemed so sterile, so lifeless there. “I
don’t know about that.”
The planchette suddenly jerked in his hand. He
glanced down, alarmed. The planchette quickly moved
over a series of letters over and over again: D-R-I-V-E-D-
R-I-V-E-D-R-I-V-E. He gasped and looked around, still
feeling… unnerved. The hackles on the back of his
neck were raised. He fumbled to turn the ignition,
putting his foot on the break and shifting to drive. As
he did so, the planchette moved itself to GOODBYE.
Anders sped out of the parking lot, confused and
worried.
***
It’s frustrating, tracking down leads, when it’s not
something you usually do. A lot of asking around, and
Anders wasn’t able to uncover anything substantial.
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