\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Go ahead, sweetie. I promise you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get in trouble.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
The girl continued to look down at her feet in silence. Beside her, holding her hand tightly, the woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face showed a mixture of sympathy and impatience.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Okay I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll start, then. She was in the gymnasium.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
The girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head shot up, a look of shock on her face. The older man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face showed shock, too, but as he opened his mouth to speak the woman continued, raising her voice to speak over him.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Which<\/i>, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure you know, may well be dangerous but is certainly not illegal. So on any other day would be none of your damn business.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
The shock on the little girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face turned to amazement at hearing her mother swear.<\/p>\n
The man sighed. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And so why is it my business today?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
At a nod from her mother, the girl spoke for the first time. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I saw a ghost,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n
There was a beat while the man tried to work out whether this was a joke then decided he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure you can appreciate, we are all very busy at the moment,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he turned to leave.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Peter,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the woman called after him. He paused. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have kids, but when was the last time you talked to someone under the age of sixteen?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have more\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No<\/i>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she cut him off again, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Nobody born in the last twenty years believes in ghosts anymore, there are plenty of scarier things out there now. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slang, Peter.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
He turned back around slowly, feeling the bottom drop out of his stomach, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Slang for what?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153She saw a machine.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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