Chapter 26
What didn’t I want to know?
“Tell me about SPECTR,” I said. “How did you become a… well, a specter? A ghost?”
She opened her mouth, then closed it again, clearly trying to figure out where to start. “It’s not a pleasant story,” she said at last.
“Yeah, well, I already know the basic ending, so…” I could feel bad about being too harsh later. Already a gentle wind was caressing my cheek, making the forest around us rustle. Our time was slipping away like sand through an hourglass, and I needed all the answers I could get.
“Fine,” Melissa said. She still wasn’t meeting my eyes, instead opting for somewhere over my left shoulder. “The scientists working on SPECTR started off doing the standard ESP experiments. Asking supposed clairvoyants to guess the shapes on the backs of car
