“I…”
“You will,” Laura insisted.
“Please just listen to me.”
Laura sat down on the couch, wary of the box near her feet. Chaisai moved it away. “Sorry, I shouldn’t have brought it here without taking your permission.”
“You shouldn’t have.” Laura agreed.
“But it is a Thai tradition. My father called it my guardian angel. And I wanted our child to have him as a protector too.”
“How can a corpse protect someone, Chaisai? It is a symbol of death and darkness. God knows whether by the act of merely bringing it here you summoned a vengeful spirit in this house.”
“Kuman Thong is something more than a corpse. Yes, it is created in a cemetery, through a procedure that is as dark and twisted as he looks, but that doesn’t make him dark. And yes, he is a spirit, but not an unkind one. We offer
