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was a very real possibility that I’d be too scared to go back to ghost<br />
hunting because I’d think that they’d all turn out to be demonic when<br />
they seemed benign enough. But I’d sort through that later.<br />
“I’m sorry for snapping at you, Tucker,” Daisy said gently.<br />
“I was just frightened. It was so hard to watch that happen to you.”<br />
“Are we going to show this to the rest of the group?” Ethan<br />
asked. “I feel like they have a right to know.”<br />
“Absolutely,” Richard agreed. “I’ll schedule a meeting so we<br />
can all talk about it sometime this week.”<br />
“Is anyone hungry?” Daisy offered. “I was just about to<br />
throw some food together when you got here.”<br />
Ethan bobbed his head. “Yes, definitely. Thank you.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> tension had broken. We had just gone through quite an<br />
ordeal, but they were working to bring things back down to normal.<br />
Ethan and Adrian stood up to go help Daisy in the kitchen, leaving<br />
Tucker and me alone with Richard.<br />
<strong>The</strong> group’s director leaned forward in his chair. “Honestly,<br />
are the two of you all right? I remember the first time I saw<br />
something like this happen. It was ... shocking, to say the least. Do<br />
you have questions?”<br />
“Only a hundred,” I finally burst out. I’d been holding in my<br />
own terror for long enough. “What was that thing? Why did it pick<br />
that family? Why did it do this to us when it didn’t even let the<br />
parents know it was there? And why Tucker when it had to choose<br />
between both of us?”<br />
Richard straightened up again. “I don’t know exactly what it<br />
is yet, but I will let you know as soon as we get more information.<br />
We will certainly go back into the house, but better prepared. I also<br />
can’t tell you why it picked the Johanssons, or why Timmy,<br />
specifically. Perhaps because, as a child, he was more vulnerable<br />
than the guarded adults. Why it chose to attack Tucker ... I also don’t<br />
know. Maybe because he was closer to it and it was more<br />
convenient. Maybe it doesn’t like males. Maybe there was a<br />
weakness it sensed in him.”<br />
Tucker still hadn’t said a word. He was staring at Richard<br />
now, still with no emotions on his face. I wondered if this was the<br />
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