20
Lawrence
I didn’t know what Reine had seen, but she’d gone more pale than usual. I drew her away from the river, which she seemed determined to stare into until she got some answers. Once we reached the sidewalk again, she shook her head, and her gaze cleared.
“I don’t know what that was, but I wish I did. I’ve been trying to reach the river nymph because it feels like there must be one. I don’t know if that was her, or her ghost. Or a non-aware shade from the past replaying its last moments.”
“In the middle of the day in the sunlight? I’ve never heard of a ghost or shade behaving like that.”
She nodded, but she looked perplexed as well. “If the desire to get the message across is strong enough, they can appear at any time.”
We walked to the River Rock Restaurant, which had a pati
