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“How is everybody doing?” Tucker asked. Susannah and<br />

Ethan had moved to a different bedroom, and both of them looked<br />

pretty bored when we walked in. “Can we switch up places? We’re<br />

<strong>no</strong>t getting anything,” Susannah requested.<br />

“<strong>The</strong> upstairs was pretty dead,” Ethan said.<br />

“We’re getting a few things down here,” Adrian spoke up.<br />

“But we’d like to go back upstairs again before we leave if that’s<br />

okay.”<br />

“That’s fine. It’s 11:30, and we told them we might be here<br />

as late as 1,” Tucker agreed.<br />

Once the groups dispersed again, we stopped in to check on<br />

the Masons, who were both fast asleep on the couch. All that fear<br />

must have really worn them out. My body was definitely starting to<br />

feel it, too. Even though on a <strong>no</strong>rmal Friday night I’d still be out<br />

with Michelle at this time, I was getting pretty damn tired.<br />

When we got back into the hallway, Tucker asked me again,<br />

“Where do you want to go?”<br />

This time, I was comfortable e<strong>no</strong>ugh that I could think<br />

clearly. “Umm ... what about the kids’ playroom? We haven’t really<br />

stopped in there much.”<br />

He raised his arm in the direction of that room. “Lead the<br />

way.”<br />

I wasn’t sure why I wanted to head to the playroom. Really,<br />

there were just more toys there to get thrown at me if I asked the<br />

wrong question. But I remembered it distinctly from the<br />

walkthrough earlier, and it was the first room that popped into my<br />

head.<br />

<strong>The</strong> family either was very impeccable when it came to<br />

cleaning, or they’d gone out of their way to make sure the house<br />

looked spiffy for the investigation. Either way, I was glad, because<br />

there were literally endless amounts of toys in the bins that lined the<br />

room. <strong>The</strong>y were little accidental booby traps waiting to happen.<br />

This particular room was different from the others because<br />

there was an e<strong>no</strong>rmous bay window framing the front yard. Even<br />

though there was <strong>no</strong> streetlamp directly in front of the Masons’<br />

house, there were several dotting the development and they let in<br />

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