The Cure of Souls
“They would usually look solid and entirely natural, an extra member of a select congregation.
Sometimes, as the rite was concluding, they would smile.
Gratitude. The received wisdom was that the hovering essence, presented with an overview and offered assistance, would usually recognize the pointlessness and the tedium of haunting. Nine out of ten cases, Huw Owen had told his students, they’re not going to resist you. They’ll not fight. Most times you’ll get a welcome like an AA van at a breakd...own on the M4.
And so sometimes they appeared. Smiling.
Actually, this had never happened to Merrily – either that or she wasn’t sufficiently sensitive to have noticed. Always nervous enough, anyway, before it began. Who was she to go dancing on the great boundary wall?
Never, never, never show nerves, Huw Owen would warn his students. All the same, don’t let them think it’s a bloody tea party.
A balancing act, then, these dealings with the dead.
Initially, Merrily had prepared for a Requiem for Stewart Ash.MoreLess
Sometimes, as the rite was concluding, they would smile.
Gratitude. The received wisdom was that the hovering essence, presented with an overview and offered assistance, would usually recognize the pointlessness and the tedium of haunting. Nine out of ten cases, Huw Owen had told his students, they’re not going to resist you. They’ll not fight. Most times you’ll get a welcome like an AA van at a breakd...own on the M4.
And so sometimes they appeared. Smiling.
Actually, this had never happened to Merrily – either that or she wasn’t sufficiently sensitive to have noticed. Always nervous enough, anyway, before it began. Who was she to go dancing on the great boundary wall?
Never, never, never show nerves, Huw Owen would warn his students. All the same, don’t let them think it’s a bloody tea party.
A balancing act, then, these dealings with the dead.
Initially, Merrily had prepared for a Requiem for Stewart Ash.MoreLess
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