Chapter Two
Echo
Wednesday, 10am“It's not that I don’t understand,” Echo said with a sigh, rolling her eyes to the right to look at the hazy apparition of a teenaged Creole boy that floated alongside her with an anxious expression.
“But Mistress,” the ghost said, wringing his hands, “Don’t you think people should know? The whole city is in danger!”
Echo hesitated, unsure how to respond. The problem with talking to young Aldous was that, like most ghosts, they had no context. Once a spirit passed beyond the Veil and into the next world, they no longer felt the passage of time. Nor were they aware that the world had moved on without them. Spirits appeared in the human realm because something anchored them there, keeping them from moving on to whatever lay ahead for them.
Thus anchored
