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Darcy was not fond of being hypnotized But it often worked

"We’ll never do anything you don’t want to do," Adauess, sohed "Adam, am I really such a freak? That’s how people react to reen with envy"

"Yes, but I saw the looks in everyone’s eyes tonight"

"You saw the look in Matt’s eyes," Adam corrected softly

She waved a hand in the air "It’s just the look…I get it from farin love with you What do you say?"

"I say that he’s entirely repulsed"

"I say that he’s afraid," Adam told her

"Matt Stone? You know, his naainst a rock Hard And unchanging"

Adahed "Even the hardest stone can be eroded And maybe you’ve shaken him to the core, which always make a man or woman don a facade as quickly as possible He’s a decent e of thought That’s difficult to come by, you know"

Darcy fell silent Difficult I ectoplas sunspots

"By the way--he’s worried about you He doesn’t think you should be here

"I’ht"

She frowned "I just can’t get a handle on this I’m more frustrated than terrified, Ada I’ve taken on the persona of theI know that she’s frightened, and I know that he has deadly intentions When I have it, the dreaoes a little further each ti the past, but so that I should see, but just don’t"

"Thatso the event We know that there is an entity, trying to tell us so out, but she’s still terrified herself Poor thing It’s the depths of the fear she was feeling when she died We have to make certain that we knoho she is--you believe it’s this Arabella So, we’re getting close, very close"

Darcy s with ghosts"

"Probably But the rest of the over the place Arabella, or whoever she is, has the greatest power And that’s because she’s so desperate to say soet to it By the way, I’ve asked David Jenner to set up a few of the caht?"

"Of course," she said She’s seen Matt’s face that night He wouldn’t be coht

"I’ht here, not a stone’s throay Call me if you need me Call if you think you ave hiht, Darcy? I haven’t seen you this shaken since…since the beginning"

"I’m fine," she assured him

She wasn’t She was hurt But then she’d known better than to fall for Matt Stone, to become emotionally involved The truth of it was that she wasn’t nor to deal with her circu at her He knew her too well "Adaht"

"About what?"

"That’s it’s dangerous for you to be here"

"Adahost did not follow me into the library I was alone when I stood on those boards What happened was a coincidence"

"Still--"

"Ada there that I’, and once I knohat it is, the situation will be solved I’ht, and please don’t worry aboutthe tape to study it once again

Darcy walked to the Lee Room It seemed very quiet She didn’t feel that the eyes watched her Then she wondered if host was simply exhausted Maybe the seance was as hard on their entity as it was on those living souls who had been involved

"Let me help you!" she said aloud "You don’t need to hurt ether to let us knohat happened"

There was no response

Darcy locked the balcony doors There would be no one slipping through theot ready for bed, and crawled in

The emptiness around her seemed absurdly loud