SEVENTEEN
THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT?
Dinner that night tuned out to be a muted affair, with little conversation passing between the three of us. I’d done my best to prepare a reasonable meal in a short space of time and the cheese omelettes with salad and baked potatoes went down well with both Kate and Forbes. I felt that every one of us really wanted to say something, but that something held each of us back from voicing our thoughts. In my case, it was of course the strange incident surrounding our return to the croft. What on earth had that thing been that seemed to appear from within the body of William Forbes? I thought that perhaps it might have been the manifestation of one of those auras that Kate had mentioned earlier. If not, what else could have caused such an event? The fact tha
