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the middle. “This is Marnie, taken that last year before she died.”
    I shivered, picturing the young girl with mournful eyes giving up and jumping to her death.
    “I’m so sorry,” Lucy murmured.
    Luke’s eyes clouded over, but then it passed as he drew himself together. “That was before you and my brother stopped Phillip Rhodes’s ritual plot. But we had all sensed the evil lurking in Hell. Our family moved away soon after.”
    “Why did Mr. Golem―Noah, sorry―why did he come back?” I asked, riveted.
    “My brother felt called back a few years ago. And even as far away as I am, I can feel the evil radiating from that town.”
    We listened to the clocks ticking in the gloomy room.
    “Do you think you have the Sight, like your sister?” I asked. “Did your mother?”
    Golem shook his head. “Not to my knowledge. Mom never said anything about it, but she was a homebody before she passed. Occasionally an item would go missing and she’d blame it on a dead relative, but that was it. We didn’t tell her about Marnie’s visions.”
    Hugh cleared his throat. “From what I’ve read on the matter, siblings of those affected with Sight have residual effects,” he said. “The ability to sense things—feelings, hunches.”
    “Like Aunt Corinne? She told me she didn’t inherit Eleanor’s gift, but she did say that she sensed spirits. I’ve always thought she was full of hot air, but maybe she really does feel spirits nearby?”
    “Yeah, she didn’t seem to happy that you could see ghosts and she couldn’t,” Theo said, rubbing her elbow.
    My father nodded and looked back at Luke, who was refilling the teacups.
    “So, what do you have to help us?” Hugh asked. “Just information? I don’t mean to be rude, but we could have spoken over the phone…”
    “Wait here,” Luke said, as he stood and retreated from the room. He came back moments later with a basket containing a cloth bundle.
    “Your daughter is the one, correct?” Luke asked Hugh. He nodded. I felt a weird sense of anticipation and nerves as Luke brought the basket over to me.
    “How did you know?” I asked him, tilting my head.
    “You’re very warm,” Luke said. “When I shook your hand, I noticed it.”
    He took the cloth off of the object and held it in his hand. I was momentarily disappointed, though I don’t know what fancy thing I had been expecting. It was a medium-sized black rock with thin, white veins running through it. He handed it to me.
    “Why are you giving me a Pet Rock?” I asked, raising my eyebrow.
    My father and Lucy laughed, but seemed equally perplexed. A grin appeared in the corner of Luke’s lined mouth. “This rock is called a grounding stone. My sister entrusted it to me, before she died. She bought it from the owner of an occult store called the Blue Moon. She used it to step into moments from the past.”
    I turned the stone over in my hands. It was only a couple of inches wide, and flat on both sides. It looked like a stone I could pick up on the side of the road.
    “I watched her use it several times. It works,” Luke said softly, sensing my disbelief.
    I was intrigued, nonetheless. “How is that possible, though? How can a person actually see the past?”
    “My sister said it was like stepping back in time. She described it as like falling backwards. Her body stayed in place but her spirit was able to walk around.”
    “So, I can actually see events that have already happened? Do they have to be my own memories?”
    “No.”
    “How does it work?” Hugh interjected.
    “I only know how Marnie was taught,” Luke warned. “She used to lie down on the floor and place the stone over her heart. You envision the time of which you desire to visit, and then shut your eyes. You hold a clear idea of the time in your mind’s eye― the scenery, the people who were there. It took Marnie months of practice, but she got there eventually.”
    “We don’t have months,” Hugh said.
    “I want to try