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"Yes Do you think that a suicide would have stood here, and flung herself over backward?" Jackson asked "It’s not iree with hly improbable"

"Yes, but remee?" Angela asked hiet rid of the impossible, what’s left is the only answer, no hosts, and Senator Holloway sure seems to think we hunt them," Jackson said

She stared back at him "We do, don’t we?" she asked quietly after a minute

"I used to be with a respected Behavioral Science Unit"

She laughed "And I was a cop, looking to eventually become a detective Jackson, apparently there are people out there who believe ghost hunting is a respected talent Adaether because he believes in us He believes in our ability to prove that ghosts aren’t responsible, just as much as he does in our ability to let our host? To sohost is a ht be a way of dealing with a loss, or so else terrible If we can open ourthe fact that science hadn’t really even begun to discover the incredible machinations of the hun you"

"I’m not embarrassed," he protested He had been, he realized He winced

What were ghosts? Mehost in his host to hi at hihost A host memory, because he’d seen a portrait in a hallway of a medieval warrior

There were times, even nohen he looked back and wondered He’d been a boy when he’d been in Scotland, riding with his friends Racing All these years later, he could still reround in the one on, assu he ay ahead of hi him home and leave him on his doorstep Then, later, he had wandered hisA painting he had seen before, but hadn’t connected with the man who had saved his life But it was hi to that explanation Yet there was always that question at the back of his ela did; stop, clear his ht be were out there

She laughed suddenly "You’ve seen a ghost," she told hihosts," he accused her

She was still s "I don’t knohat I’ve seen, really I believe that there’s ht--I’ve been places when a parent senses that a child is in danger"

He stared at her, a bit annoyed; she seemed completely comfortable with her own beliefs, and confident in herself She didn’t run around broadcasting her talents, she just accepted theure out as we go This is new to all of us--I think we’re an experirinned, and he thought that sheto like hi to be a part of it It’s a good group I like the others"

"Where are those kids?" he asked "They should be back fro they’ll be back soon," Angela said She frowned, and he realized that she was still standing with her back to the railing, leaned slightly back He visualized the body falling from her position, and knew that with a bit of impetus--a push or a shove--she would land on the courtyard, just as Regina Holloway had landed

Despite himself, he reached out and pulled her closer to him, and away fro over," she told hiry, and she didn’t netish him Maybe her parents had knohen they’d naolden and elegant young woman

He just wanted to stay close to her; to protect her, fro close She did see o down--I’ve seen cops go down, I’ve seen the e that he hadn’t intended in his tone

She touched his cheek with the pads of her fingers; it was a nice gesture, one a friend ht her hand, thinking that he ly intimate moment He’d known her a day now Maybe the intensity of the situation er