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2015.10.13 02:55 lawmack Connellsville
Connellsville is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA, 57 miles (92 km) southeast of Pittsburgh on the Youghiogheny River, a tributary of the Monongahela River. It is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The population was 7,637 at the 2010 census. -Wikipedia
2013.07.10 21:16 whatever21327 Subreddit for the city of Surprise, AZ
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2023.05.29 16:42 FrozenFalcon_ Please pick up your fish as soon as you catch them!
I’ve been in a few lobbies now where people have neglected to pickup their fish until the event finishes.
The reason that this is an issue is because the focused fishing buff only goes up when a legendary or exotic fish is picked up. So for every person that doesn’t pickup their fish, they don’t actually help in getting the buff at all.
So please pickup your fish so that you have any sort of effect on focused fishing, instead of one person helplessly trying to get it.
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The reason that this is an issue is because the focused fishing buff only goes up when a legendary or exotic fish is picked up. So for every person that doesn’t pickup their fish, they don’t actually help in getting the buff at all.
So please pickup your fish so that you have any sort of effect on focused fishing, instead of one person helplessly trying to get it.
2023.05.29 16:42 Consistent_Orchid359 Harsh Off Track Penalty Daily Race C
Just completed Daily Race C at Grand Valley and got 5 or so 0.5 second penalties for not leaving the track!? The last few tight corners before the tunnel have me baffled. Barely clipped the kerbs and I kept getting pens.Only time I didn't get a pen thru here is when I slowed right down & drove in the middle of the road but lost about 2 seconds on those ahead. Is this a glitch or is it the same for everyone?
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2023.05.29 16:42 autotldr Pedro Sánchez calls elections on July 23
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 47%. (I'm a bot)
Summary Source FAQ Feedback Top keywords: que#1 la#2 una#3 del#4 Gobierno#5
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El presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, ha anunciado este lunes que convocará elecciones el próximo 23 de julio.
El decreto con la disolución de las Cortes se publicará mañana en el BOE. "He tomado esta decisión a la vista de los resultados conocidos ayer".
"España está a punto de superar una etapa de crisis derivada de la emergencia del COVID-19, también de la guerra de Ucrania, encaramos una senda clara de crecimiento, de creación de empleo y de cohesión social", ha enfatizado.
También ha reivindicado que "a estas alturas de la legislatura el Gobierno ha sacado adelante las grandes reformas comprometidas en el discurso de investidura, en el programa de Gobierno y también en nuestro acuerdo con la Comisión Europea".
Pero también ha advertido que España "Se dispone a desempeñar una responsabilidad muy importante en este contexto geopolítico que está viviendo Europa, la presidencia de turno del Consejo de la Unión Europea".
"Todas estas razones aconsejan una clarificación sobre la voluntad de los españoles, una clarificación sobre las políticas que debe aplicar el Gobierno de la nación y una clarificación sobre las fuerzas políticas que debe liderar esta fase".
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2023.05.29 16:41 Delicious-Ad8092 A river a thousand paces wide lay down on the riverbed.
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2023.05.29 16:40 KneeDramatic6864 Opinion: The climaxes in Radiohead songs are too short.
Anyone else feel this way? I feel like the climaxes in some Radiohead songs just don’t last long enough. They’re so amazing and gorgeous but then they’re over after a few bars.
Some examples:
Exit Music Both guitar solos on Paranoid Android Jigsaw Falling Into Place 2 + 2 = 5 Optimistic Weird Fishes
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Some examples:
Exit Music Both guitar solos on Paranoid Android Jigsaw Falling Into Place 2 + 2 = 5 Optimistic Weird Fishes
2023.05.29 16:40 SoftCreative3201 To Potska
Gem of a world,
Glim in the dirt,
Gold wrought and grand,
Gilded in cream,
Got lessons learnt from your warm heart and steam,
Ghastly you said ain’t a cause for alarm,
Guard every essence, the good and the bad,
Glitter ain’t nothing:
Without the reek of the murk,
Partly I miss you,
Probably for more,
Plastic for glamor: you never stood for,
Pried me from whining: prancing on doors,
Panting pathetic and looking for aawws,
Pointed me straight to pride in my yucks,
Potent and sturdy when they go like ew,
Party and bullshit: kept me from those,
Probably the reason am;
Poorly received,
Truth is I’m fine,
Toasty and feisty,
Tarrying mmm.. barely: on this wagon trail,
Tanya is gone, yeah, Tony, and Tristan,
‘tis only me on the old dusty road,
Twilights are lonely yet romantic still,
Tuesdays the coldest with chilled ghostly shrills,
Tolkien still thrills me and widens my scope,
Thranduill, and Gandalf, and Frodo my soul,
Tis getting late and the night’s getting dark,
Tomorrow’s another, a day for a ride,
To Potska my teacher, my guide, and my sight,
I keep riding on though it seems I might die
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Glim in the dirt,
Gold wrought and grand,
Gilded in cream,
Got lessons learnt from your warm heart and steam,
Ghastly you said ain’t a cause for alarm,
Guard every essence, the good and the bad,
Glitter ain’t nothing:
Without the reek of the murk,
Partly I miss you,
Probably for more,
Plastic for glamor: you never stood for,
Pried me from whining: prancing on doors,
Panting pathetic and looking for aawws,
Pointed me straight to pride in my yucks,
Potent and sturdy when they go like ew,
Party and bullshit: kept me from those,
Probably the reason am;
Poorly received,
Truth is I’m fine,
Toasty and feisty,
Tarrying mmm.. barely: on this wagon trail,
Tanya is gone, yeah, Tony, and Tristan,
‘tis only me on the old dusty road,
Twilights are lonely yet romantic still,
Tuesdays the coldest with chilled ghostly shrills,
Tolkien still thrills me and widens my scope,
Thranduill, and Gandalf, and Frodo my soul,
Tis getting late and the night’s getting dark,
Tomorrow’s another, a day for a ride,
To Potska my teacher, my guide, and my sight,
I keep riding on though it seems I might die
2023.05.29 16:39 Additional-Ear-5279 AITA for refusing to remove the hunting mounts when my SIL is staying at the cabin
My family has a hunting cabin that has been passed down for generations. I am an only child so it went to me when my father died. Now I don't really hunt, always found it boring but going up to the cabin to fish or just swim with the kids has always been fun. I fixed the place up and its a great place to get away for the weekend.
Now my SIL fell on hard times, we were going to have her stay at the house but her drive to work would be awful. So we decided to have her stay at the cabin since her drive would be a lot better and more room for everyone. I went up with her this week and show the cabin before she moves in next week. The cabin is old and over the years family members have gotten mounts or had what they hunted preserved. There are a lot of furs rugs and head mounts.
She told me she can't move in and needed them to go. I was taken aback since we are doing her a huge favor. I told her all the stuff is staying. She was mad but I thought that was it. I get home and my wife goes off on me for caring more about the family mounts than her sister being comfortable. She is not talking to me and I just feel like we are doing a huge favor for SIL and that she can't suck it up then she doesn't get a free place to live
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Now my SIL fell on hard times, we were going to have her stay at the house but her drive to work would be awful. So we decided to have her stay at the cabin since her drive would be a lot better and more room for everyone. I went up with her this week and show the cabin before she moves in next week. The cabin is old and over the years family members have gotten mounts or had what they hunted preserved. There are a lot of furs rugs and head mounts.
She told me she can't move in and needed them to go. I was taken aback since we are doing her a huge favor. I told her all the stuff is staying. She was mad but I thought that was it. I get home and my wife goes off on me for caring more about the family mounts than her sister being comfortable. She is not talking to me and I just feel like we are doing a huge favor for SIL and that she can't suck it up then she doesn't get a free place to live
2023.05.29 16:38 Branchless System Shock (2023) - Review Thread
Game Information
Game Title: System Shock (2023 Remake)Platforms:
- PC (May 30, 2023)
- Xbox Series X/S (May 30, 2023)
- PlayStation 5 (May 30, 2023)
- Xbox One (May 30, 2023)
- PlayStation 4 (May 30, 2023)
Developer: Nightdive Studios
Publisher: Prime Matter
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 72 average - 61% recommended - 25 reviews
Critic Reviews
BaziCenter - محمد طالبیان - Persian - 9 / 10System Shock Remake might not be without flaws, but remaking one of the greatest games ever made after almost 3 decades was never an easy task to start with. Nevertheless, the Remake is solid enough to give the new generation of gamers a taste of one of the pioneers of the video games industry.
For those who are huge fans of the original release, I am sure that this will be highly regarded as a fantastic remake. But this is more than that: for those new to the franchise, this is also a great point to step in at. Nightdive’s System Shock remake is one that will appeal to both audiences. The core gameplay mechanics may not the best or most polished, but it’s the world design, atmosphere and engaging plot that make for an experience that is still very much unique, and well worth the gigantic wait.
System Shock's remake is a love letter to the original and its fans, but also an opportunity for new fans to rediscover an authentic video game classic.
It might be a little conservative, but this is a smart, faithful remake and easily the de facto way to play System Shock in the modern era.
Nightdive Studios' System Shock remake is the definitive version of the classic 90s PC title whose influence is still felt in today's sci-fi shooters.
Nightdive’s System Shock remake keeps much of its successful elements intact while doing away with a lot of its archaic issues that would drag down a modern game.
Nightdive Studios may have taken seven years, but it's finally managed to do the impossible and thread the unlikely line between reboot and remake.
System Shock Remake is a solid remake of an exceptional game. It doesn't quite reach the levels of modernization that you might see from something like Resident Evil 4 Remake, but it does a good job of adapting a classic without losing what made it a classic in the first place. It's a clever and creative game that deserves its place in gaming history, and the remake emphasizes that.
While we wait for a genuine reboot, System Shock is worth playing as a reminder of how important great ideas were, and still are, to the hobby we love.
System Shock Remake is a solid sci-fi first person shooter, although it does not go beyond the boundaries drawn by the first and immortal chapter, released in 1994.
Unforgiving, with no tutorials, and a true-to-classic experience, System Shock is a retro survival horror title through and through, but you should still consider checking it out, even if you don't care for the original.
After three decades, System Shock still serves up a sci-fi banquet complete with one of the greatest antagonists and features that revolutionised a genre. Classic games are left open to classic stumbling blocks, however, as some of the design shows considerable depreciation.
System Shock is an upgraded classic with dated elements that needs quality of life improvements, yet despite everything is still a fun treat for immersive sim fans.
While I won’t call the System Shock remake an instant classic or on par with other recent remakes such as Resident Evil 4 or Dead Space, it is a decent effort to bring a revered sci-fi title to a new audience.
Not the high-end remake that some fans would have been hoping for but even as a, at times, too faithful remaster this is a fascinating second look at one of gaming's great unsung heroes.
The System Shock remake is the best way to play the PC classic, making it an enjoyable first-person experience for the modern age. However, it still clings to some somewhat outdated mechanics that will frustrate newcomers.
If you want to explore the history of the horror genre then this is the version to play, but you might want to bookmark a guide to avoid System Shock's most outdated elements.
System Shock is the remake fans have been waiting since 2015 and it succeeds in bringing back all that 90s PC gaming experience. Including the outdated feel in an era flooded with greater and more attractive games.
An oddly pitched remake that has its moments but adds very little to the original beyond a visual upgrade
However commendable Nightdive’s efforts to preserve the spirit of the original may be, it doesn’t take much frustrated wandering before questioning whether their modernization efforts have gone far enough.
Nightdive's System Shock remake is a strange game, and whether it will appeal to you may largely depend on your nostalgia for the era of gaming from which it came. This remake still shows its age, despite the considerable and impressive paint job, lighting, and updated controls. If you don't mind the sometimes murderous level of difficulty, tons of backtracking, and minimal handholding, System Shock may be a compelling piece of gaming history that is worth checking out.
The atmospheric visual overhaul marks the best part of this exhausting and dated remake, while the villainous AI SHODAN remains a timeless antagonist.
Polygon - Gita Jackson - UnscoredVideo Review - Quote not available
It’s easy to understand why people played this game and then became obsessed with it, why you can trace some people’s careers through the game.
While its refusal to let you cheat the exam will prove too punishing for some, the new System Shock is a breathtakingly beautiful and astonishingly faithful remake that proves the enduring power of Looking Glass design.
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2023.05.29 16:35 heyitsthephoneguy Looking for a 2 pole smart switch or other solution to run my property’s irrigation system?
Title mostly but I’m going to add back story since it could be helpful with context.
I have a small hobby farm with about 8 acres of property and the property line to the south has a river running through. The river is deep enough to pull water from, and the previous owner hooked up a pump with underground plumbing and everything. The whole system is really awesome and convenient for getting water for gardens and our livestock no matter where you are on the property. I’ve got close to 6 spigots that the system feeds, and they save me an absolute ton of time and energy.
The only problem is the switch to the pump is not in a convenient spot. It’s connected to a sub panel in a shed that isn’t really close to the house, or the animal pen. It would be really nice to have a two pole smart switch that I could turn on with my phone wherever I was. I wouldn’t be opposed to a switchbot, or something that could mechanically turn the switch on and/or off, but it seems like switchbot only works on rocker switches?
It’s a 220/240 (I can never remember which it is. I’m in the US and it used two circuit breakers with one bar so it’s 2 standard circuits.) so I can’t just simply wire up a regular smart switch. Google seemed less than helpful, and I posted over in DIY as well, and the closest I can get is possibly a pool pump switch, or a timer, both of which I am not opposed to, but I really want to exhaust my resources and learn a few things along the way. It’s not completely inconvenient to run it while I’m outside working and such, but the main reason I want a smart switch is because often times I need to water the gardens overnight and Id rather have it on a schedule so I didn’t have to go all the way out there to turn it on and off every day. Thanks in advance for any help!
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I have a small hobby farm with about 8 acres of property and the property line to the south has a river running through. The river is deep enough to pull water from, and the previous owner hooked up a pump with underground plumbing and everything. The whole system is really awesome and convenient for getting water for gardens and our livestock no matter where you are on the property. I’ve got close to 6 spigots that the system feeds, and they save me an absolute ton of time and energy.
The only problem is the switch to the pump is not in a convenient spot. It’s connected to a sub panel in a shed that isn’t really close to the house, or the animal pen. It would be really nice to have a two pole smart switch that I could turn on with my phone wherever I was. I wouldn’t be opposed to a switchbot, or something that could mechanically turn the switch on and/or off, but it seems like switchbot only works on rocker switches?
It’s a 220/240 (I can never remember which it is. I’m in the US and it used two circuit breakers with one bar so it’s 2 standard circuits.) so I can’t just simply wire up a regular smart switch. Google seemed less than helpful, and I posted over in DIY as well, and the closest I can get is possibly a pool pump switch, or a timer, both of which I am not opposed to, but I really want to exhaust my resources and learn a few things along the way. It’s not completely inconvenient to run it while I’m outside working and such, but the main reason I want a smart switch is because often times I need to water the gardens overnight and Id rather have it on a schedule so I didn’t have to go all the way out there to turn it on and off every day. Thanks in advance for any help!
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2023.05.29 16:35 hotdish81 41 [M4R] SE MN outdoor friends
Good day, everyone. I'm looking for some friends that enjoy going on hikes, exploring the outdoors, maybe even going to live music. I also enjoy playing and learning table top gaming, which was my takeaway from covid. Not much of a drinker. I can get down with a margarita or sour beer on a patio but mostly just enjoy 420. My schedule isn't always so user friendly because I work in the hospitality sector. I feel this is what has really made my friend pool limited. I don't mesh with most kitchen folk anymore as I don't enjoy going out and drinking all the time and being part of the kitchen culture. I am currently partnered, so this is just a friendly situation. Not interested in hooking up with anyone. Just looking for some company and maybe some connection.
About me: I'm 41. I'm LGBTQIA friendly. He/him. A bigger guy that's been working on getting healthier. I'm down 50# since September. I'm from Minnesota. I live between Winona and Rochester. I enjoy the outdoors as in hiking, fly fishing, just hanging outside, toss a frisbee? Grill out? Sure. Whatever as long as it's outside. In all honesty my life has hit a rough patch and I just need some fun, distracting people in my life right now. Not interested in finding religion, ty.
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About me: I'm 41. I'm LGBTQIA friendly. He/him. A bigger guy that's been working on getting healthier. I'm down 50# since September. I'm from Minnesota. I live between Winona and Rochester. I enjoy the outdoors as in hiking, fly fishing, just hanging outside, toss a frisbee? Grill out? Sure. Whatever as long as it's outside. In all honesty my life has hit a rough patch and I just need some fun, distracting people in my life right now. Not interested in finding religion, ty.
2023.05.29 16:34 aRandomFox-II "Your favourite placed to build" poll results!
Last friday I did a small survey on this subreddit about your favourite places to build your bases in this game.
The results are in! https://imgur.com/mSIPN6A
Coming in 1st place at 37.9% is the Highlands biome, followed by the Desert and River. Can't say I'm too surprised, I can see the allure. The Highlands are pretty and full of life and lush greenery without being too extreme in either direction. You just feel like you could build a house and settle here. Also, of course, because it's a fairly central location on the map so no resource is too far to get to. And I can see the attachment we all have for Noob River. Don't know why the barren Desert is as popular as it is though, but who am I to judge?
The least popular biomes are the Volcano and Snow regions, with the former scoring 2 votes out of 66, and the latter scoring only 1. The Snow region is pretty in its own way, but I can see how the temperature can be a turn-off for many. As for the Volcano, well... whichever extremophiles picked this must either be masochists or wannabe Dark Lords if they chose to build their fortresses on Mt. Doom. lol jk.
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The results are in! https://imgur.com/mSIPN6A
Coming in 1st place at 37.9% is the Highlands biome, followed by the Desert and River. Can't say I'm too surprised, I can see the allure. The Highlands are pretty and full of life and lush greenery without being too extreme in either direction. You just feel like you could build a house and settle here. Also, of course, because it's a fairly central location on the map so no resource is too far to get to. And I can see the attachment we all have for Noob River. Don't know why the barren Desert is as popular as it is though, but who am I to judge?
The least popular biomes are the Volcano and Snow regions, with the former scoring 2 votes out of 66, and the latter scoring only 1. The Snow region is pretty in its own way, but I can see how the temperature can be a turn-off for many. As for the Volcano, well... whichever extremophiles picked this must either be masochists or wannabe Dark Lords if they chose to build their fortresses on Mt. Doom. lol jk.
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The bigger issue is that you have to be willing to be involved in making it a better town. It's not for everybody. Some people just want to move to a place that is already hip, but that is a more expensive real estate zone. Do you want to pay that much more for ready made hip, or would you be willing to buy low and sell high?
If you don't have school aged children then it's even better in outlying communities like Lincoln. The schools are improving but they have room to improve. If the children are young then a up-trending school like Lincoln may be to your liking in 3 years? When I lived in Atlanta, people would move to a small town with ok schools for a few years and then move to better schools when the kids went to Jr High. They saved money for 3-6 years and the house appreciated so they could sell and afford to move to a better district.
Hindsville is a rare Eastern growth area along with Elkins, because Beaver Lake locks the top half of the NWA metro area from growing East. Hwy 412 opens up a commuter path for Hindsville to reach jobs in Springdale and Lowell. The developments on Hwy 16 from the 265 intersection east to Elkins are already growing for a while.
Lincoln has an improvement momentum right now with a new bank, buildings being rehabbed on the square, and a good new mexican restaurant on the square. There are run down buildings but one has been torn down and one of the crappy convenience stores has been rebuilt. West Fork is great for anyone working at the UofA because it is a straight shot North on I49. Fayetteville should want growth in South Washington county because those residents are likely to go to Fay for retail, entertainment and services.
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Hindsville is a rare Eastern growth area along with Elkins, because Beaver Lake locks the top half of the NWA metro area from growing East. Hwy 412 opens up a commuter path for Hindsville to reach jobs in Springdale and Lowell. The developments on Hwy 16 from the 265 intersection east to Elkins are already growing for a while.
Lincoln has an improvement momentum right now with a new bank, buildings being rehabbed on the square, and a good new mexican restaurant on the square. There are run down buildings but one has been torn down and one of the crappy convenience stores has been rebuilt. West Fork is great for anyone working at the UofA because it is a straight shot North on I49. Fayetteville should want growth in South Washington county because those residents are likely to go to Fay for retail, entertainment and services.
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2023.05.29 16:31 SleeplessFromSundown The Séance Club - The End of Windhaven Manor [Final]
This post is the final part of this story. Sorry it has taken so long to get through. And I'm not sure I even understand all of it yet. If you're new, this all started here. The previous part (Part 7) is here. Thank you to everyone who followed along.
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“Do you see her?” I asked in a meek voice.
“You mean that girl in black?” Harvey answered.
It was her, in the flesh. Her lips parted and formed a malevolent smile. Her dark eyes fixed on mine. My legs turned to solid lead. My feet refused to move. The anxiousness to reach Parker and Juliet and Beth in the cellar crumbled like the wood turning to ash behind us. She demanded my attention.
A hand rocked my shoulder. Harvey. I pushed him away.
“You have to go. Help them. I’ll take care of her.”
“What about you?”
“I’ll be right behind you.”
A mirage of Harvey flitted past Ally and disappeared into the kitchen. Everything blurred, everything but her.
She tilted her head to one side and bridged the gap between us with four slow and deliberate steps. She pushed her right hand out from a long sleeve and ran the black painted nail of her index finger across my cheek, the smooth lacquer cold against my skin. I shuddered as the chill spread like ice creeping up a window.
“It is such a shame to be losing you so soon. We’ve only just met, and yet I feel like we’ve known each other our whole lives. Do you feel it too?”
I shook my head. “Let me go.”
“We’re past that now Sam. I considered if we could coexist, you and I. It gave me a thrill knowing there is another one out there like me. But you insist on meddling with my work.”
“You mean locking all those girls in that filthy dungeon where they met their end? And Jane here.”
“The work is sometimes unpleasant.”
“But the pay is good?”
“This isn’t about money Sam. You and I are the same. The pain you felt from not fitting in. The lonely nights lying awake, wishing you could be like everyone else. The stares and the whispers. The rejection from those who are supposed to love us the most. I too know. But where you hid, I searched out a path where my talents were appreciated and rewarded. You don’t hate me Sam. You hate yourself for not thriving like I have.”
“Thriving? Is that what you call it?”
“By all measures yes. I am good at what I do. The best. The only. Or so I thought. And then there is you. A naïve, sheltered little boy who can barely put on his own pants in the morning. It is such a shame. And these so-called friends of yours, that was always doomed to failure. Oh and if you harbour any thoughts of them escaping, know that we blocked the little secret entrance the stable boy showed you. There’s no escape except through the fire. When they pick through the ashes of this building they will find their bones, and yours. Is this how you imagined it turning out?”
I flexed the muscles in my legs, but they refused to move. Ally smiled.
“It’s useless now Sam.”
I heard the faint whisper of Juliet’s voice in my head. She pleaded with me. Come on Sam, you can do this. I remembered the last encounter with Ally, outside the wall separating Windhaven Manor from the world. Ally had put me in the white room. I had broken free. I had overcome her power once. I had to do it again.
I took a deep breath in through my nose and cried out and willed my feet to move. Electricity coursed through my body and I directed it down to the floor. My left heel separated from the floor and that set the whole thing in motion. The dam burst. I lurched forwards and overbalanced and sprawled to the floor.
Ally crouched beside me and chuckled. “Some would call it a tragedy for a child to die so soon after learning to walk.”
I looked back towards the front of the house. The fire burned hot. Thick black smoke circled up the huge open space of the gallery. Portraits hanging on the wall bubbled and curled as flames consumed them.
A figure appeared at the foot of the staircase. The spectre of Crown. The goons had dragged his lifeless corpse out of the house, but stood before me was the spirit with unfinished business. The ugliness of his actions showed through now in death. His skin was sallow and wrinkled. His head too big for his body and his teeth yellowed. A grotesque monster made worse by his mortal demise.
Ally whispered in my ear. “He knows it was your meddling that brought about his end. I’ll leave you two alone.”
She brushed my cheek with the back of her hand and stood. As she walked away leather straps materialised out of thin air and pinned my body to the floor.
The spectre of Crown grew before me, swelling in size until he had to crouch to stay below the chandelier. He clenched his fists and with burning red eyes let out a guttural growl that skipped my ears and penetrated directly into my skull.
I tried to pull my hands to my ears but they would not come. It made no difference. The roar coming from Crown stabbed the inside of my head like a thousand daggers. I lifted my head and the growl grew to a scream that ricocheted around the inside of my skull. I couldn’t take much more. It felt as though my head would explode.
Guilt bubbled up and mingled with the fear and I shrank into the floor and wished for it to swallow me. They were down there, the only friends I had known, banging against a locked door denying their escape. I sobbed. I sobbed like I had the night my parents turned from me.
In the pit of my stomach something else grew. A seed of frustration born of a lifetime existing in a world that didn’t make sense. A world where I had no idea who I was and what I could or should do. A world in which I hid. I couldn’t do that now.
Juliet’s voice as clear as day, cutting through the racket of Crown’s scream. Do it Sam. I gritted my teeth and electricity buzzed somewhere deep inside, at first dull and imperceptible, and then amplified and resonating until it peaked into a deafening roar.
Above Crown the bulbs in the chandelier glowed white. He swivelled his head and watched them dumbly.
I concentrated, felt the energy forming an extra limb. Like the arms and legs of a newborn it flailed spasmodically. I fought to control it, to turn it to my will. I focussed on the straps pinning me to the floor. The electricity fed into the straps and turned them hot. For a moment I feared they would scold my skin, and then in a moment of release they split and flung upwards.
I picked myself up off the floor and faced the spectre of Crown. Like a spent boxer throwing one final punch I threw out my hands and screamed, willing Crown to be quiet and be still. Demanding he be so.
The floor shook. The dozens of bulbs in the chandelier shattered. The giant spectre of Crown diminished and the screaming inside my head softened until it was no more. Crown’s eyes opened wide as his mouth stitched together and his arms wrenched behind his back. I flicked my hand like I was swatting a fly and Crown flew into the corner of the room and slumped to the floor.
I bent over and rested my hands on my knees. My muscles ached, like I had run a marathon. Shadows played on the floor. I sucked in air and smoke and spluttered and coughed.
In the hallway the silhouette of Ally. She turned and shook her head. The heat of the fire intensified and crackled at my skin. If we were to make our escape, she could not be here to block us. I straightened and strode towards her.
I cycled furiously through the events of the last few days, searching for something to defeat Ally. I had to do to her what she had done to me. The time for running and breaking her spells was through.
I closed my eyes and concentrated. I stripped away everything except for the two of us. The crackle of the fire replaced with silence. The smell of the smoke disappeared. The heat washed away. One by one I shut down all my senses. When I opened my eyes a monotone room of white. Sterile calm had replaced the burning insides of Windhaven Manor.
Her eyes scanned the room and she giggled. “Cheap tricks won’t get you far,” she said. “And you learned this one from me.”
The white rippled as if the walls were made of water. She was fighting it. I concentrated, focussing all my energy, all my will. The ripples slowed and then stopped.
“You’re a fast learner,” she said. “But I have been doing this for more than a weekend.”
Strips of colour permeated the white. A rectangle of tile appeared on the floor. And then some blue from the curtain. Enough of a smouldering wall to let in some smoke. The acrid smell reached my nose and I spluttered. As each wedge of colour appeared, I filled it back in white. But it was a sinking ship and the pail I held to bail out the water would not be enough.
Ally grunted under her breath. A grunt of frustration. The white room shook and made a sound like a train bearing down.
I had to bind her. I raised my palm and coils of rope rose from the ground and oscillated like snakes around her. She swatted them away and wrenched them from the ground and flung them at my feet, limp and unmoving.
“It won’t be that easy,” she sneered.
My arms jerked behind my back. She bound my wrists and then my ankles. She pursed her lips and blew as if extinguishing a single candle on a birthday cake, and it was enough to send me to the floor. I couldn’t do this on my own. I needed help.
I shut my eyes and concentrated my energy not on my bindings, but on the woods at the back of Windhaven Manor. On the girls who escaped the dungeon and now roamed the forest, watching the house burn from behind the barrier Ally constructed.
I fed the energy coursing through my body into the giant snowdome structure until it burned hot and then like the globes in the chandelier, it cracked and exploded into the night sky. The spirits of the girls watched the shards disappear and then strode towards the Manor.
I turned my attention to the tiny room beside the pantry, where Jane Laughlin lay bound to the bed. I stood beside her and lay my hand on the shackles binding her to the bed. She shuddered as the mask came free from her mouth and then stood as the shackles broke.
I opened my eyes and the white of the room flickered off and then back on again like bad reception on a television. I had to keep the white walls up long enough for them to draw near. For them to be ready when the façade fell. Ally strode towards me, exuding confidence.
“You can’t beat me Sam.”
Ally squeezed her hands into fists and screamed. In a burst of energy she wiped the white room clear and we were back in the burning house. The air was thick with smoke. Behind me a timber beam tumbled from the ceiling and crashed to the floor. The heat and smoke sucked the moisture from my insides and I heaved out a series of coughs.
Ally opened her eyes and smiled. She had bested me. But then they came. The girls from the dungeon and Jane Laughlin surrounded her. The sum total off all the pain and hurt inflicted in this place. Everything Ally had worked to keep hidden from the world.
They lurched at Ally. She raised her hands and pushed them back one by one as they went for her. She spun on the spot, trying to keep them at bay. She could not hold them all back. The sheer weight of numbers overwhelmed. They leaned in and pushed their heads into hers and showed her what those men had done. Made her feel it. The fear and despair and anger of each individual stacked together and Ally crumpled to the floor holding her head.
“Make it stop,” she said.
They kept at her.
Jane Laughlin sidled over to the base of the stairs where Crown sat, bound and with his mouth stitched. She considered him, restrained and helpless on the floor as she had been. He fought with his restraints, and then whimpered, as she had. As I ran for the pantry and the wine cellar, the corridor filled with the muffled sound of his screams.
The door to the cellar stood open and I made the descent of the stairs in three leaps. The enclosed space already full with smoke. At the end of the long corridor leading outside, Parker and Harvey shouldered the door. Juliet and Beth screamed encouragement. The door would not budge.
“We can’t go that way,” I yelled.
They raced back up the long corridor. A sudden rush of emotion bubbled up to the surface. I was so happy to see them all still alive. My lower jaw rattled and my hands shook. I fought to hide it.
Beth reached me first. “Sam, you’re ok.”
I blubbered a response and took in a lung full of smoke. We had to get out.
The fire raged outside the kitchen door. A wave of flame climbed up and spread across the ceiling. A subtle cracking sound from above intensified and a chunk of the upstairs floor came crashing down through the ceiling, blocking the rear door. We couldn’t get out the back. The only way now was back through the house. A ball of flame whooshed through the doorway and I put my arm up too late, my eyebrows wilting in the heat.
We crouched together in the middle of the kitchen, lowering our heads to get the last of the remaining oxygen. Malicious red flames and choking black smoke surrounded us on all sides.
“Where do we go now?” Parker’s words came out between coughs. Tears streaked down his cheeks. Soot covered his brow. I wished I had an answer.
Then he was there, standing over Parker’s shoulder. Leon. With the protective bubble gone, he too was free to come in the Manor.
“The fire has not yet consumed the dining room. But you don’t have long.”
I looked vaguely in the direction of the kitchen door and blinked back the stinging from the smoke. “I don’t think we can find it in this.”
“Follow me.”
I pulled my shirt up over my head. “We have to go. The dining room, we can make it. All together on three.”
I shouted out the numbers, the sound drowned out by the roar of the fire. I grabbed Beth’s hand and yanked her into action. Leon led the way and I kept my eyes on his heels. Together we were a flurry of arms and legs bounding for the dining room. I gritted my teeth against the heat. We burst through the doorway and everything turned orange.
From below the sweater pulled tight down over my hair, I shot a glance over to the floor of the grand gallery where I had left Ally writhing on the floor. She was not there now. Nor were the spectres of the girls.
I followed Leon’s heels into the dining room. The great wooden table smouldered in the centre of the room. Brilliant orange flames consumed the thick curtains. Parker spotted his camera still atop the tripod and set to pulling the camera free before Harvey grabbed his arm and yelled something that sounded like ‘leave it’.
Harvey grabbed one of the heavy chairs with their high backs and velvet cushions and heaved it at the window in the back corner of the room. The chair disappeared into the darkness of the night and Harvey kicked at the glass shards left behind. Parker joined. We piled out the opening.
I drank in the fresh cool air of night, staggering over the narrow path beside the house and to the small strip of grass beyond. Parker collapsed beside me and pulled the laptop out from under his shirt. He tapped at the casing and for a moment a brief smile flashed across his face, but it did not last long. He wiped soot and sweat from his face with shaking hands.
Harvey checked us all in turn, like a parent fussing over their children. We had scrapes and bruises and our skin was red and raw, but we were alright. We had survived. He ran to the front of the house and came back with palms held out by his sides. The man in the black suit, the goons Ponytail and Beanie, and Ally were all gone, along with the black van and the BMW.
Huddled together, we watched the fire consume Windhaven Manor, bright reds and oranges lighting up the windows and thick black smoke tumbling into the purple haze of sky. It was almost morning, the horizon signalling the coming of the sun.
Leon stood apart on the grass. I went to him.
“Thank you for coming back for us.”
He shrugged. “It’s something. It isn’t enough to make up for the rest.”
“You saved our lives. And those girls, they had their chance to meet their tormentors. That’s something too.”
He nodded. “What happens now?”
I turned my head sideways. “I’m still learning how all this works.”
The red of the fire reflected in his eyes. “Me too. I might go for a walk in the woods. I always liked it out there.”
He glided across the lawn and entered the trees and was gone.
The sound of sirens fought with the crackle of the fire. The fire brigade and the police. I got to my feet and shuffled to the front of the Manor. The burnt out carcasses of our cars stood by the low height wall. Black soot smudged the stone façade above the windows and the doors.
By the oak tree on the ocean side of the house stood Jane Laughlin. She peered down into a hole dug at the base of the tree. A pale and withered hand poked up out of the dirt. Her hand. They had meant to remove the body, but had aborted the task and fled.
A fire truck appeared at the head of the driveway and then another. They sped down the gravel and came to a sliding stop. A lone police car followed. Harvey sidled over.
Jane looked to the horizon. Out on the cliff edge stood a figure in a red dress. She recognised her sister Kylie immediately and ran down the slope. The two sisters embraced in the first light of the sun. I turned to the whoosh of water through a hose from the fire trucks and when I turned back, the Laughlin sisters were gone.
The members of The Séance Club, which I now consider myself a part, sat together on the low-height stone wall as the firefighters extinguished the flames consuming Windhaven Manor. The house was quiet now. The nausea and vibration I had felt that first night replaced with calm.
The police stripped the compound clean for the best part of a week. They identified Kyle the sketch artist and Hugo from the teeth that survived the fire of the hovel built over the dungeon. Hugo’s wife lay on the back lawn where Beanie and Ponytail had left her. But as to specific evidence of the crimes that occurred, they could not find enough to put a case together.
The two fires and the disappearance of Crown made some headlines, but there wasn’t enough to hang anyone else. The police claimed publicly that there was no link between the fire at Windhaven Manor and the fire at the squalid residence over the back fence. At Harvey’s behest they searched the area with cadaver dogs for the remains of the girls, but they found nothing.
Parker turned his laptop over to the police. They identified the two goons, Ponytail and Beanie, low level thugs who had disappeared from the streets years earlier. Those in the know presumed them dead. It made tracing them almost impossible. Tracing their vehicles lead to a dead end.
The man in black the suit on the other hand might as well be a ghost. On him they found nothing. They have a face, but nothing else.
As for Ally, the girl somehow managed to always turn her face away from the cameras, as if she knew where they were.
I sat in a small room at the police station for three days with Harvey putting the pieces together. He showed me a photograph of an old and gaunt man with a bent back, the last owner of Windhaven Manor before it was sold after his death. He had to be the man with the bent back from the ceremony in the dungeon, but I could not be certain. I never saw his face. Of the faces I did see, we knew Crown and Kyle and Hugo, but the others were harder to pinpoint.
At the end of it all Harvey sighed. There was nothing more we could do. But we could rest on the knowledge that the key players in the ceremony were all now dead.
Questions nagged at me. Where was Ally and what was she doing? Would she try to find me? Who was she working for?
That was the biggest question of all. Who was at the top and pulling the strings? Harvey wasn’t giving up. He was a dog with a bone at the best of times, and now he had a taste of blood. He refused to go back to the police even after Crown’s departure, which he described as the removal of a cancerous limb.
Harvey called me after the dust settled on everything. I told him that the trail had gone cold and I had no idea where Ally was. For all I knew she had evaporated into thin air. Harvey thought it unlikely, and I agreed. He told me it was time for some old-fashioned detective work. The names of the goons would be a start.
And there was something else Harvey mentioned, something that I had almost forgotten. He had always believed that his investigation into the disappearance of the girls was the reason one of his colleagues was murdered. Crown confirmed as much in the bedroom right before he was shot. Harvey thinks there is something to it. Another thread to pull, and he has a hunch. For now he’s keeping his cards close to his chest until he has some proof. I almost pressed him on the issue but decided I’d rather put it all behind me.
The story made headlines in the local press for a while, but ultimately it fizzled into a non-story, quickly forgotten by a public with a short attention spans. We all waited for a reckoning from within the police ranks, but it never came. Harvey predicted that’s the way it would go, and he was proven right.
The one item they did recover was a gold necklace with a heart pendant. The necklace Jane Laughlin wore the night of her death. The police found it where the black van had parked. After a few days in the possession of the police, Harvey arranged to have the necklace released to the family of its former owner.
The following day Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin appeared on the local news, thanking the efforts of those who recovered the remains of their daughter. It was closure, though not the kind they had hoped for. Both their girls were dead.
A week later The Séance Club convened in Beth’s apartment. Parker and Juliet were already there when I arrived. It was cathartic to talk about the events at Windhaven Manor, to compare stories and scars. I guess that’s why they have the saying about a problem shared.
After a brief silence, Beth asked, “Are you going to talk to the parents of Jane and Kylie?”
I shook my head. “What will I tell them?”
“That their daughters found each other out by the cliff edge.”
“And what about the agony of their deaths? Should I tell them that too? Besides, it doesn’t feel right. None of this feels right to me yet. And what weight do my words hold over those of some Priest talking about how he knows their souls are at rest.”
“Because you really do know.”
I shrugged. “I can’t prove any of it.”
Truth was I had no idea how to integrate the things I could see and do into my life. From childhood all I had wanted was to be like everyone else. For people not to stare or whisper as I walked by. To find acceptance. Sitting with my three new friends at Beth’s tiny kitchen table, with our shared experience behind us, I finally had it. This could be the start of something.
Parker was already planning the next Séance Club trip. An abandoned farm up north with mysterious sightings going back centuries. Juliet was already on board. I told them to wait. I couldn’t jump back in right away.
I was the last to leave, Beth and I sipping mug after mug of coffee and sharing comfortable silence. When I sighed and told her I should go, she grabbed my arm.
“I’ve never had a real family, and then I found Juliet and Parker. The Séance Club became my family. Whatever happens we are there for each other. And we mean it when we say we want you to join.”
I thought about that all night, unable to sleep.
The next morning I called Parker.
An abandoned farm up north you say?
* * * *
I navigated to the narrow alley and checked the time. The Exchange should be open. It looked out of context in the Saturday morning light. No bright light spilling from the window. No surge of Friday night after work traffic.
I slipped in the front door. A lone man lifted upturned stools down from the bar. He had his back to me and I crept across the hardwood floor in the direction of the stairs down and the bathrooms.
The vibration swelled in my chest, but I did not fear it. A dull pain rose in the base of my skull, but I gritted my teeth. A man wearing a pair of rough leather shoes came from the other end of the corridor and stopped before me.
“Are you here to help?”
I nodded.
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“Do you see her?” I asked in a meek voice.
“You mean that girl in black?” Harvey answered.
It was her, in the flesh. Her lips parted and formed a malevolent smile. Her dark eyes fixed on mine. My legs turned to solid lead. My feet refused to move. The anxiousness to reach Parker and Juliet and Beth in the cellar crumbled like the wood turning to ash behind us. She demanded my attention.
A hand rocked my shoulder. Harvey. I pushed him away.
“You have to go. Help them. I’ll take care of her.”
“What about you?”
“I’ll be right behind you.”
A mirage of Harvey flitted past Ally and disappeared into the kitchen. Everything blurred, everything but her.
She tilted her head to one side and bridged the gap between us with four slow and deliberate steps. She pushed her right hand out from a long sleeve and ran the black painted nail of her index finger across my cheek, the smooth lacquer cold against my skin. I shuddered as the chill spread like ice creeping up a window.
“It is such a shame to be losing you so soon. We’ve only just met, and yet I feel like we’ve known each other our whole lives. Do you feel it too?”
I shook my head. “Let me go.”
“We’re past that now Sam. I considered if we could coexist, you and I. It gave me a thrill knowing there is another one out there like me. But you insist on meddling with my work.”
“You mean locking all those girls in that filthy dungeon where they met their end? And Jane here.”
“The work is sometimes unpleasant.”
“But the pay is good?”
“This isn’t about money Sam. You and I are the same. The pain you felt from not fitting in. The lonely nights lying awake, wishing you could be like everyone else. The stares and the whispers. The rejection from those who are supposed to love us the most. I too know. But where you hid, I searched out a path where my talents were appreciated and rewarded. You don’t hate me Sam. You hate yourself for not thriving like I have.”
“Thriving? Is that what you call it?”
“By all measures yes. I am good at what I do. The best. The only. Or so I thought. And then there is you. A naïve, sheltered little boy who can barely put on his own pants in the morning. It is such a shame. And these so-called friends of yours, that was always doomed to failure. Oh and if you harbour any thoughts of them escaping, know that we blocked the little secret entrance the stable boy showed you. There’s no escape except through the fire. When they pick through the ashes of this building they will find their bones, and yours. Is this how you imagined it turning out?”
I flexed the muscles in my legs, but they refused to move. Ally smiled.
“It’s useless now Sam.”
I heard the faint whisper of Juliet’s voice in my head. She pleaded with me. Come on Sam, you can do this. I remembered the last encounter with Ally, outside the wall separating Windhaven Manor from the world. Ally had put me in the white room. I had broken free. I had overcome her power once. I had to do it again.
I took a deep breath in through my nose and cried out and willed my feet to move. Electricity coursed through my body and I directed it down to the floor. My left heel separated from the floor and that set the whole thing in motion. The dam burst. I lurched forwards and overbalanced and sprawled to the floor.
Ally crouched beside me and chuckled. “Some would call it a tragedy for a child to die so soon after learning to walk.”
I looked back towards the front of the house. The fire burned hot. Thick black smoke circled up the huge open space of the gallery. Portraits hanging on the wall bubbled and curled as flames consumed them.
A figure appeared at the foot of the staircase. The spectre of Crown. The goons had dragged his lifeless corpse out of the house, but stood before me was the spirit with unfinished business. The ugliness of his actions showed through now in death. His skin was sallow and wrinkled. His head too big for his body and his teeth yellowed. A grotesque monster made worse by his mortal demise.
Ally whispered in my ear. “He knows it was your meddling that brought about his end. I’ll leave you two alone.”
She brushed my cheek with the back of her hand and stood. As she walked away leather straps materialised out of thin air and pinned my body to the floor.
The spectre of Crown grew before me, swelling in size until he had to crouch to stay below the chandelier. He clenched his fists and with burning red eyes let out a guttural growl that skipped my ears and penetrated directly into my skull.
I tried to pull my hands to my ears but they would not come. It made no difference. The roar coming from Crown stabbed the inside of my head like a thousand daggers. I lifted my head and the growl grew to a scream that ricocheted around the inside of my skull. I couldn’t take much more. It felt as though my head would explode.
Guilt bubbled up and mingled with the fear and I shrank into the floor and wished for it to swallow me. They were down there, the only friends I had known, banging against a locked door denying their escape. I sobbed. I sobbed like I had the night my parents turned from me.
In the pit of my stomach something else grew. A seed of frustration born of a lifetime existing in a world that didn’t make sense. A world where I had no idea who I was and what I could or should do. A world in which I hid. I couldn’t do that now.
Juliet’s voice as clear as day, cutting through the racket of Crown’s scream. Do it Sam. I gritted my teeth and electricity buzzed somewhere deep inside, at first dull and imperceptible, and then amplified and resonating until it peaked into a deafening roar.
Above Crown the bulbs in the chandelier glowed white. He swivelled his head and watched them dumbly.
I concentrated, felt the energy forming an extra limb. Like the arms and legs of a newborn it flailed spasmodically. I fought to control it, to turn it to my will. I focussed on the straps pinning me to the floor. The electricity fed into the straps and turned them hot. For a moment I feared they would scold my skin, and then in a moment of release they split and flung upwards.
I picked myself up off the floor and faced the spectre of Crown. Like a spent boxer throwing one final punch I threw out my hands and screamed, willing Crown to be quiet and be still. Demanding he be so.
The floor shook. The dozens of bulbs in the chandelier shattered. The giant spectre of Crown diminished and the screaming inside my head softened until it was no more. Crown’s eyes opened wide as his mouth stitched together and his arms wrenched behind his back. I flicked my hand like I was swatting a fly and Crown flew into the corner of the room and slumped to the floor.
I bent over and rested my hands on my knees. My muscles ached, like I had run a marathon. Shadows played on the floor. I sucked in air and smoke and spluttered and coughed.
In the hallway the silhouette of Ally. She turned and shook her head. The heat of the fire intensified and crackled at my skin. If we were to make our escape, she could not be here to block us. I straightened and strode towards her.
I cycled furiously through the events of the last few days, searching for something to defeat Ally. I had to do to her what she had done to me. The time for running and breaking her spells was through.
I closed my eyes and concentrated. I stripped away everything except for the two of us. The crackle of the fire replaced with silence. The smell of the smoke disappeared. The heat washed away. One by one I shut down all my senses. When I opened my eyes a monotone room of white. Sterile calm had replaced the burning insides of Windhaven Manor.
Her eyes scanned the room and she giggled. “Cheap tricks won’t get you far,” she said. “And you learned this one from me.”
The white rippled as if the walls were made of water. She was fighting it. I concentrated, focussing all my energy, all my will. The ripples slowed and then stopped.
“You’re a fast learner,” she said. “But I have been doing this for more than a weekend.”
Strips of colour permeated the white. A rectangle of tile appeared on the floor. And then some blue from the curtain. Enough of a smouldering wall to let in some smoke. The acrid smell reached my nose and I spluttered. As each wedge of colour appeared, I filled it back in white. But it was a sinking ship and the pail I held to bail out the water would not be enough.
Ally grunted under her breath. A grunt of frustration. The white room shook and made a sound like a train bearing down.
I had to bind her. I raised my palm and coils of rope rose from the ground and oscillated like snakes around her. She swatted them away and wrenched them from the ground and flung them at my feet, limp and unmoving.
“It won’t be that easy,” she sneered.
My arms jerked behind my back. She bound my wrists and then my ankles. She pursed her lips and blew as if extinguishing a single candle on a birthday cake, and it was enough to send me to the floor. I couldn’t do this on my own. I needed help.
I shut my eyes and concentrated my energy not on my bindings, but on the woods at the back of Windhaven Manor. On the girls who escaped the dungeon and now roamed the forest, watching the house burn from behind the barrier Ally constructed.
I fed the energy coursing through my body into the giant snowdome structure until it burned hot and then like the globes in the chandelier, it cracked and exploded into the night sky. The spirits of the girls watched the shards disappear and then strode towards the Manor.
I turned my attention to the tiny room beside the pantry, where Jane Laughlin lay bound to the bed. I stood beside her and lay my hand on the shackles binding her to the bed. She shuddered as the mask came free from her mouth and then stood as the shackles broke.
I opened my eyes and the white of the room flickered off and then back on again like bad reception on a television. I had to keep the white walls up long enough for them to draw near. For them to be ready when the façade fell. Ally strode towards me, exuding confidence.
“You can’t beat me Sam.”
Ally squeezed her hands into fists and screamed. In a burst of energy she wiped the white room clear and we were back in the burning house. The air was thick with smoke. Behind me a timber beam tumbled from the ceiling and crashed to the floor. The heat and smoke sucked the moisture from my insides and I heaved out a series of coughs.
Ally opened her eyes and smiled. She had bested me. But then they came. The girls from the dungeon and Jane Laughlin surrounded her. The sum total off all the pain and hurt inflicted in this place. Everything Ally had worked to keep hidden from the world.
They lurched at Ally. She raised her hands and pushed them back one by one as they went for her. She spun on the spot, trying to keep them at bay. She could not hold them all back. The sheer weight of numbers overwhelmed. They leaned in and pushed their heads into hers and showed her what those men had done. Made her feel it. The fear and despair and anger of each individual stacked together and Ally crumpled to the floor holding her head.
“Make it stop,” she said.
They kept at her.
Jane Laughlin sidled over to the base of the stairs where Crown sat, bound and with his mouth stitched. She considered him, restrained and helpless on the floor as she had been. He fought with his restraints, and then whimpered, as she had. As I ran for the pantry and the wine cellar, the corridor filled with the muffled sound of his screams.
The door to the cellar stood open and I made the descent of the stairs in three leaps. The enclosed space already full with smoke. At the end of the long corridor leading outside, Parker and Harvey shouldered the door. Juliet and Beth screamed encouragement. The door would not budge.
“We can’t go that way,” I yelled.
They raced back up the long corridor. A sudden rush of emotion bubbled up to the surface. I was so happy to see them all still alive. My lower jaw rattled and my hands shook. I fought to hide it.
Beth reached me first. “Sam, you’re ok.”
I blubbered a response and took in a lung full of smoke. We had to get out.
The fire raged outside the kitchen door. A wave of flame climbed up and spread across the ceiling. A subtle cracking sound from above intensified and a chunk of the upstairs floor came crashing down through the ceiling, blocking the rear door. We couldn’t get out the back. The only way now was back through the house. A ball of flame whooshed through the doorway and I put my arm up too late, my eyebrows wilting in the heat.
We crouched together in the middle of the kitchen, lowering our heads to get the last of the remaining oxygen. Malicious red flames and choking black smoke surrounded us on all sides.
“Where do we go now?” Parker’s words came out between coughs. Tears streaked down his cheeks. Soot covered his brow. I wished I had an answer.
Then he was there, standing over Parker’s shoulder. Leon. With the protective bubble gone, he too was free to come in the Manor.
“The fire has not yet consumed the dining room. But you don’t have long.”
I looked vaguely in the direction of the kitchen door and blinked back the stinging from the smoke. “I don’t think we can find it in this.”
“Follow me.”
I pulled my shirt up over my head. “We have to go. The dining room, we can make it. All together on three.”
I shouted out the numbers, the sound drowned out by the roar of the fire. I grabbed Beth’s hand and yanked her into action. Leon led the way and I kept my eyes on his heels. Together we were a flurry of arms and legs bounding for the dining room. I gritted my teeth against the heat. We burst through the doorway and everything turned orange.
From below the sweater pulled tight down over my hair, I shot a glance over to the floor of the grand gallery where I had left Ally writhing on the floor. She was not there now. Nor were the spectres of the girls.
I followed Leon’s heels into the dining room. The great wooden table smouldered in the centre of the room. Brilliant orange flames consumed the thick curtains. Parker spotted his camera still atop the tripod and set to pulling the camera free before Harvey grabbed his arm and yelled something that sounded like ‘leave it’.
Harvey grabbed one of the heavy chairs with their high backs and velvet cushions and heaved it at the window in the back corner of the room. The chair disappeared into the darkness of the night and Harvey kicked at the glass shards left behind. Parker joined. We piled out the opening.
I drank in the fresh cool air of night, staggering over the narrow path beside the house and to the small strip of grass beyond. Parker collapsed beside me and pulled the laptop out from under his shirt. He tapped at the casing and for a moment a brief smile flashed across his face, but it did not last long. He wiped soot and sweat from his face with shaking hands.
Harvey checked us all in turn, like a parent fussing over their children. We had scrapes and bruises and our skin was red and raw, but we were alright. We had survived. He ran to the front of the house and came back with palms held out by his sides. The man in the black suit, the goons Ponytail and Beanie, and Ally were all gone, along with the black van and the BMW.
Huddled together, we watched the fire consume Windhaven Manor, bright reds and oranges lighting up the windows and thick black smoke tumbling into the purple haze of sky. It was almost morning, the horizon signalling the coming of the sun.
Leon stood apart on the grass. I went to him.
“Thank you for coming back for us.”
He shrugged. “It’s something. It isn’t enough to make up for the rest.”
“You saved our lives. And those girls, they had their chance to meet their tormentors. That’s something too.”
He nodded. “What happens now?”
I turned my head sideways. “I’m still learning how all this works.”
The red of the fire reflected in his eyes. “Me too. I might go for a walk in the woods. I always liked it out there.”
He glided across the lawn and entered the trees and was gone.
The sound of sirens fought with the crackle of the fire. The fire brigade and the police. I got to my feet and shuffled to the front of the Manor. The burnt out carcasses of our cars stood by the low height wall. Black soot smudged the stone façade above the windows and the doors.
By the oak tree on the ocean side of the house stood Jane Laughlin. She peered down into a hole dug at the base of the tree. A pale and withered hand poked up out of the dirt. Her hand. They had meant to remove the body, but had aborted the task and fled.
A fire truck appeared at the head of the driveway and then another. They sped down the gravel and came to a sliding stop. A lone police car followed. Harvey sidled over.
Jane looked to the horizon. Out on the cliff edge stood a figure in a red dress. She recognised her sister Kylie immediately and ran down the slope. The two sisters embraced in the first light of the sun. I turned to the whoosh of water through a hose from the fire trucks and when I turned back, the Laughlin sisters were gone.
The members of The Séance Club, which I now consider myself a part, sat together on the low-height stone wall as the firefighters extinguished the flames consuming Windhaven Manor. The house was quiet now. The nausea and vibration I had felt that first night replaced with calm.
The police stripped the compound clean for the best part of a week. They identified Kyle the sketch artist and Hugo from the teeth that survived the fire of the hovel built over the dungeon. Hugo’s wife lay on the back lawn where Beanie and Ponytail had left her. But as to specific evidence of the crimes that occurred, they could not find enough to put a case together.
The two fires and the disappearance of Crown made some headlines, but there wasn’t enough to hang anyone else. The police claimed publicly that there was no link between the fire at Windhaven Manor and the fire at the squalid residence over the back fence. At Harvey’s behest they searched the area with cadaver dogs for the remains of the girls, but they found nothing.
Parker turned his laptop over to the police. They identified the two goons, Ponytail and Beanie, low level thugs who had disappeared from the streets years earlier. Those in the know presumed them dead. It made tracing them almost impossible. Tracing their vehicles lead to a dead end.
The man in black the suit on the other hand might as well be a ghost. On him they found nothing. They have a face, but nothing else.
As for Ally, the girl somehow managed to always turn her face away from the cameras, as if she knew where they were.
I sat in a small room at the police station for three days with Harvey putting the pieces together. He showed me a photograph of an old and gaunt man with a bent back, the last owner of Windhaven Manor before it was sold after his death. He had to be the man with the bent back from the ceremony in the dungeon, but I could not be certain. I never saw his face. Of the faces I did see, we knew Crown and Kyle and Hugo, but the others were harder to pinpoint.
At the end of it all Harvey sighed. There was nothing more we could do. But we could rest on the knowledge that the key players in the ceremony were all now dead.
Questions nagged at me. Where was Ally and what was she doing? Would she try to find me? Who was she working for?
That was the biggest question of all. Who was at the top and pulling the strings? Harvey wasn’t giving up. He was a dog with a bone at the best of times, and now he had a taste of blood. He refused to go back to the police even after Crown’s departure, which he described as the removal of a cancerous limb.
Harvey called me after the dust settled on everything. I told him that the trail had gone cold and I had no idea where Ally was. For all I knew she had evaporated into thin air. Harvey thought it unlikely, and I agreed. He told me it was time for some old-fashioned detective work. The names of the goons would be a start.
And there was something else Harvey mentioned, something that I had almost forgotten. He had always believed that his investigation into the disappearance of the girls was the reason one of his colleagues was murdered. Crown confirmed as much in the bedroom right before he was shot. Harvey thinks there is something to it. Another thread to pull, and he has a hunch. For now he’s keeping his cards close to his chest until he has some proof. I almost pressed him on the issue but decided I’d rather put it all behind me.
The story made headlines in the local press for a while, but ultimately it fizzled into a non-story, quickly forgotten by a public with a short attention spans. We all waited for a reckoning from within the police ranks, but it never came. Harvey predicted that’s the way it would go, and he was proven right.
The one item they did recover was a gold necklace with a heart pendant. The necklace Jane Laughlin wore the night of her death. The police found it where the black van had parked. After a few days in the possession of the police, Harvey arranged to have the necklace released to the family of its former owner.
The following day Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin appeared on the local news, thanking the efforts of those who recovered the remains of their daughter. It was closure, though not the kind they had hoped for. Both their girls were dead.
A week later The Séance Club convened in Beth’s apartment. Parker and Juliet were already there when I arrived. It was cathartic to talk about the events at Windhaven Manor, to compare stories and scars. I guess that’s why they have the saying about a problem shared.
After a brief silence, Beth asked, “Are you going to talk to the parents of Jane and Kylie?”
I shook my head. “What will I tell them?”
“That their daughters found each other out by the cliff edge.”
“And what about the agony of their deaths? Should I tell them that too? Besides, it doesn’t feel right. None of this feels right to me yet. And what weight do my words hold over those of some Priest talking about how he knows their souls are at rest.”
“Because you really do know.”
I shrugged. “I can’t prove any of it.”
Truth was I had no idea how to integrate the things I could see and do into my life. From childhood all I had wanted was to be like everyone else. For people not to stare or whisper as I walked by. To find acceptance. Sitting with my three new friends at Beth’s tiny kitchen table, with our shared experience behind us, I finally had it. This could be the start of something.
Parker was already planning the next Séance Club trip. An abandoned farm up north with mysterious sightings going back centuries. Juliet was already on board. I told them to wait. I couldn’t jump back in right away.
I was the last to leave, Beth and I sipping mug after mug of coffee and sharing comfortable silence. When I sighed and told her I should go, she grabbed my arm.
“I’ve never had a real family, and then I found Juliet and Parker. The Séance Club became my family. Whatever happens we are there for each other. And we mean it when we say we want you to join.”
I thought about that all night, unable to sleep.
The next morning I called Parker.
An abandoned farm up north you say?
* * * *
I navigated to the narrow alley and checked the time. The Exchange should be open. It looked out of context in the Saturday morning light. No bright light spilling from the window. No surge of Friday night after work traffic.
I slipped in the front door. A lone man lifted upturned stools down from the bar. He had his back to me and I crept across the hardwood floor in the direction of the stairs down and the bathrooms.
The vibration swelled in my chest, but I did not fear it. A dull pain rose in the base of my skull, but I gritted my teeth. A man wearing a pair of rough leather shoes came from the other end of the corridor and stopped before me.
“Are you here to help?”
I nodded.
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2023.05.29 16:30 the-leftphalange Worried about loud noise incident
This happened a few hours ago so it’s still quite fresh and I may be overthinking it.
It’s a really lovely day so we decided to take our 4 month old pup for a nice walk near a bridleway by a river. No motor-powered transport are meant to go in this area - it’s nice, quiet and you can enjoy a little bit of nature.
Suddenly we hear this huge loud noise coming in our direction and quickly scoop up our puppy after seeing a dirt bike I suppose come in our direction. They stopped right in front of us, revved the bike a few times and drove off.
Our pup was super scared (can’t blame him!) and it was extremely hard to settle him. We cut the trip short and came home because he was literally so stressed out. We had been working extremely hard on slowly exposing him to areas of high traffic and he was perfectly comfortable at this stage.
However, this was quite a scary and loud incident - even I was shocked but we tried to stay calm for the puppy. We came home and he still wasn’t himself, every time there was an out of the ordinary noise, even if not loud, he was on full alert and just kept sitting between our feet.
He’s now having a nap and I’m planning to take him out to the park for 10-15 mins just to make sure he has an outside experience that is positive post-incident but I’m worried about how this will affect him long-term as he is/was quite a confident little puppy and I’m worried he’ll start being afraid of all noises.
What is the likelihood of this happening? And if it does happen, what steps would you recommend taking?
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It’s a really lovely day so we decided to take our 4 month old pup for a nice walk near a bridleway by a river. No motor-powered transport are meant to go in this area - it’s nice, quiet and you can enjoy a little bit of nature.
Suddenly we hear this huge loud noise coming in our direction and quickly scoop up our puppy after seeing a dirt bike I suppose come in our direction. They stopped right in front of us, revved the bike a few times and drove off.
Our pup was super scared (can’t blame him!) and it was extremely hard to settle him. We cut the trip short and came home because he was literally so stressed out. We had been working extremely hard on slowly exposing him to areas of high traffic and he was perfectly comfortable at this stage.
However, this was quite a scary and loud incident - even I was shocked but we tried to stay calm for the puppy. We came home and he still wasn’t himself, every time there was an out of the ordinary noise, even if not loud, he was on full alert and just kept sitting between our feet.
He’s now having a nap and I’m planning to take him out to the park for 10-15 mins just to make sure he has an outside experience that is positive post-incident but I’m worried about how this will affect him long-term as he is/was quite a confident little puppy and I’m worried he’ll start being afraid of all noises.
What is the likelihood of this happening? And if it does happen, what steps would you recommend taking?