Chapter 17

"How long have you been there?" Ethan asks him. He is still standing on the rickety stair but he is no longer trying to make a descent.

"Just now, we need to leave here. It isn't safe." Mike warns again.

Ethan turns back to look at the welcoming darkness deep below and then back up to Mike. He heaves a sigh and returns his foot onto the corridor. He would have to come back into that basement some other time.

"What happened here?" He asks Mike as they walk out of the corridor.

"Crazy folks thought they've seen a ghost, they ran out, and ever since then no one dares to come out here," Mike explains with a chuckle.

Ethan didn't see the joke in the tale. If someone thinks their house is haunted that is not an avenue to laugh, we should rather support and find help for the person and not retort to mockery.

"As the gamma did you bother to come out to verify the story?" Ethan's voice booms with authority as he asks the question.

Mike morphs his fac