Chapter 40

“Did you just kill him?” Dana asked.

“No, couldn’t. This guy is lame, just beats his meat too often while fantasizing about someone else who works here. Coincidentally, that’s how I got this little nugget of info from him. Wait for it…” She held up a hand and then pointed at the man’s crotch. “Ha, there it is! Anyway, they minimize electronics down here. Haunted items can drain electricity to gain in power, which is fairly common knowledge, and they don’t want some of the resident spirits wreaking havoc. Any electrical lines that go out there cause the systems in here to short out all the time, so they disconnected everything. Those glowing panels are some imported enchanted marble slabs from Jordan. No, the real reason for no cameras is kind of exciting. Apparently, that thing that lives at the bottom of the pit sometimes summons things.”

“Wait, what? I thought you said it wasn’t awake?”

“Awake is a relative term for something smeared across time and space.” Lily