"Hey, Jake," said Corinne, "You know what?"
I was exhausted. "No. What?"
"You're not interested!"
"Yeah. (Yawn.) I mean, no, I am!"
"Fine! I won't tell you what I found out from Taffial!"
Corinne was friends with Taffial. And sometimes, he would tell her more about his findings, because he knew how big of a history fan she was. But if he told what he found to her, and ONLY her, it must be something important, or secretive, for she is a really good secret keeper.
"No! I want to know! Pleeeeeeeaaaaaassssssseeeeee!"
"Ok, check this out! Taffial said that he found a weird castle-thing somewhere in the Mipedian Desert. At first, he thought it was a mirage, but he went closer and found out that it was real. He was there with only three other Mipedians, and they wanted to go check it out, but he told them not to go in there, but they did."
She then creepily smiled.
"Taffial waited and waited for a long time, staring at the dark castle, too scared to look for his friends inside. Then, he heard a scream within the castle, then, another. He was about to go into the castle, but found a dark figure approaching him from within the darkness; it was only one of his Mipedian friends, only one, and he was shaking in fear, he could barely stand, Taffial said he was all covered in scars and spewing fountains of dark crimson blood, everywhere, then he-"
That was going too far. (She was spending chills down my spine.)
"Whoa! Whoa! Wait a minute. . . . Did Taffial tell you ALL this? Or are you making that story up?"
Her face turned normal again. "Wait, he did tell me that, but I'm not done with the story."
"Ugh. Continue."
"Ok, then, he kept on mentioning the name, 'Odille. . . . Odille. . . .' Then he-" She stopped. And then, she looked down solemnly. But then she quickly looked up and laughed. "He's fine! I think he probably forgot about it by now!"
"No, I don't think so," I told her, "I don't even think half of the things you told me were even true!"
"Well, but I heard that this 'Odille' is a mysterious Mipedian ghost that dwells in the castle," Corinne said.
Ghost?
"So. . . . like that Owacky right?" I asked.
"OWAYKI! Geez! But yes, that is correct. Odille haunts the dark castle, waiting for a willing victim to come and enter, so she can kill him!"
". . . .Owacky does that?"
"No. But are coming or not?"
"You're actually GOING there?! Are you crazy? Didn't you just tell me that pretty much whoever goes in there gets practically KILLED?!"
"What? Are you scared?"
"NO! What makes you think that I'm scared because I'm not!"
"Good. Then meet me tomorrow at seven."