CHAPTER 77

KATHERINE. “Do you know what time we’ll be leaving or are we spending the night here?” I asked Josie as we began to set up our sleeping bags and she gave me a confused look. “Didn’t Theo say we’re spending the night?” He did say that, but we were all done with the activity and I wasn't on board with the idea of sleeping here. It was creepy. His reason for us spending the night here was so the new CMES members would get used to the presence of ghosts and build trust among one another. In order to do the latter, we weren't going to surround the lobby which we would be sleeping in with salt and we were going to take shifts watching over everyone, protecting them if ghosts wandered in from outside. I pouted because I'd hoped he changed his mind. “Why are we doing that?” “He’s a sadist,” she replied and I snorted. We finished setting up in silence and after we settled in, I pulled my History of Blackwood textbook out of my bag and Josie shot me a look. “You want to read here?” I nodde