"Kenny, are you sure this is safe?" Yukki's high voice asked as she flitted near the goliath's stone-colored shoulder.
Holding back a large sigh he replied "I am almost positive this is not safe. If you wanted things safe why did you become an adventurer?"
Yukki paused at his question "Because if I didn't I wouldn't get to stay with you!"
Shaking his head Ken continued to stare at the door "we have to go in, midnight on the Winter Solstice is the only time that Brandibar's dead lover will show up. And she has information of this 'thoon' cult that we keep running into."
"Oh yeah! I keep forgetting, I think the house is scaring me."
The goliath shook his head as the pixie on his shoulder almost fell off in fright as the front door creaked open all on it's own.
"Are you ready?"
"No" her tiny voice replied
"Good, let's find this ghost before the malshapers do"
Ken walked in, Yukki flitting nervously at his shoulder, her natural glow dimming in the dark shadowy room. Lit by moonlight the old house had an eerie beauty, until the sound of bugs and rodents running around was noticed. And the dead bodies were a little disconcerting. Ken's foot steps echoed in the large foyer. The rotting wooden floor was covered in decaying rugs, a grand chandelier hung in disrepair above their heads. To the right was an arched doorway, Yukki's pink glow turning the skeleton bones a eerie shade in the dim light.
'What are you doing?' a voice whispered in Yukki's mind
"Kenny! The ghosts are speaking to me!"
A disbelieving look on his face Ken turned to the fey "what are they saying?"
"They're asking what we're doing here."
"Well, just let me know if they start screaming or threatening our lives, that's when you need to start worrying."
A pause from Yukki as she flew off the stone shoulder, illuminating more of the decrepit house. A burned wooden table was faintly visible in front of the skeletons to Yukki's right. She continued past the doorway further into the hallway, Ken's heavy footsteps following behind her. A staircase loomed ahead, the tatters of a dress hanging between the rails. Yukki's head turned sharply to the right, the voices leading her to the back corner of the room. "Kenny, I think there's someone back here." She whispered as a beetle skuttled under her.
"What are they saying now?" Ken asked, keeping an eye on both the staircase and the skeletons in the other room. When neither moved, he turned his attention to Yukki as she passed into the corner room. Squish Ken looked down, a large beadle under his boot, it's bright red shell cracked.
"IGNARO! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY PET!"
"Kenny, I think the ghosts are mad now." Yukki backed up into the doorway as Ken stepped in front of her, shielding her from the glowing butcher knife sailing towards her.
"Why do I let you talk me into these situations?" he muttered as he pulled out his long sword.
A bolt of radiant light shot past him towards the hazy figure in the corner. "Cause I'm fun!"
"Yeah, sure you are"
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