"So, what you're telling me is that we got to somehow bust through that door and get into some weird temple thing with stairs basically going to Hell?" Lance quickly yelled out while flailing his arms about slightly. "Seriously? Is our luck that bad?" He groaned as Keith rolled his eyes.

"I'm very sure Shiro didn't say just now that we had to go to Hell literally. Just down some passage once we get into the temple." Keith shook his head. "Don't make this more dramatic and weirder than it has to be."

"I'm just saying it really sounds like we are living a horror movie right now! You know what happens to people that go down dark creepy tunnel passageways whatever? They usually die!" Lance pointed at all of them before pointing at himself. "And I for one do not want to die."

Shiro sighed slightly. "Then just don't start waking up in the manor and you'll be fine. It's the people affected by the curse that need to attempt such anyway." He rubbed his temple. "If anything, I'm glad not all of us are cursed. I wouldn't want to wish it on anyone."

"Shiro…" Keith frowned and looked down at his hands. He wasn't sure there was anything he could say that would make Shiro feel better about this. It seemed the conversation with Adam had only brought back some life to Shiro's eyes that wasn't faked. The curse probably would keep Shiro from completely escaping his saddened heart. Damn curse!

"Yeah, but it's not like I want you all to get offed while I watch!" Lance pouted. "I mean, does this temple really exist? Maybe Adam just saw weird stuff in there. I heard the darkness can make you go loco." He twirled his finger in front of one of his ears.

Keith heard Pidge groaned. "Really Lance? He's a ghost. Can they even go crazy from the darkness? I can't even believe I'm asking let alone contemplating that." She huffed loudly. "But I honestly think it's possible that the temple could be there." She gestured for Matt to come over. Keith watched Matt come over with some dusty worn parchments and slowly rolled them out across the coffee table.

"These are all the maps we could find. As you can see, there are parts of the Manor of Sleep that don't appear on these ones." He pointed to where the God's village and the Himuro mansion parts of the manor were non-existent but one were drawn in on the map they were working on. "But we have noticed in what few written accounts we could find something about a shrine." He gently placed down books that were bounded together with old strings. "But nowhere on the map does it show a shrine."

"A shrine?" Keith raised an eyebrow. "What kind of shrine?"

Pidge gripped one of the books. "Unfortunately, the books are vague as if trying to keep the place a secret." She handed it to Keith. "There is mention of a Priestess and her need to bear the pain of others. We could only guess she is related to the shrine. But how she bore the pain or anything like that is not in these books."

Keith nodded while opening the book. He saw the lines about the priestess. "Sleep…priestess…lie in peace." He muttered softly to himself. At seeing someone's head next to his, he stiffened slightly.

"Sorry Keith. Didn't mean to spoke you." Shiro looked at the page. "But Keith…weren't you humming that before?"

"Yeah, I believe I was." Keith scowled. "I must have encountered someone in that place that sung it. Why I was singing it while awake like that…I can't say." He kept scowling while closing the book. "I just assume the place is influencing me. Not like I like that though."

"Wait, like influence as in you are getting possessed?" Lance quickly blurted out while doing a cross sign at Keith. "Ah hell naw! Don't let that bad juju into this place!"

"Lance!" Shiro frowned and glared. "Don't act like Keith is going to suddenly turn into the girl from the Exorcist on us!"

Keith saw Lance's color leave his face. "Shiro, I think you made it worse."

Shiro blinked before seeing Lance jump back and move some feet away from Keith. "Whoops. I mean, horror movies never did quite scare me. I just remember people referencing that one as one of the scarier possession movies."

Keith shrugged. "Not like I would know. I don't tend to sit around and watch movies." He was too much of an outdoors on the move guy to sit around for hours on end watching films. "But no, Lance. I've never been possessed. I just have always been able to…I don't know, connect with the spirit realm? So, I guess ghosts sometimes use that to their advantage as best they can."

"Wouldn't that mean you could be suspectable to possession?" Pidge adjusted her glasses. "Or is something else keeping that from happening?"

Keith looked down at the ground. "Dad taught me how keep myself from losing to them completely. Doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but his techniques have worked so far."

Shiro furrowed his eyebrows. "You think what your dad taught you could benefit the rest of us? I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to be prepared for anything right now."

"Seriously? You saying we are going to get possessed now?"

"Lance!" Shiro and Keith glared at him.

"Okay, sorry. Just that kind of stuff is not cool." Lance took a few deep breaths. "That might be a good idea though. I would much prefer learning some weird tricks than finding myself crawling up walls and speaking in tongues."

Keith face-palmed. "I highly doubt you would do that if you got possessed." His dad never mentioned people who had a ghost intruder doing such things. Though he heard they did in movies apparently. "Sure though. I think I can teach them. They aren't hard in principle. They just require a lot of practice. And where I've always dealt with ghosts in way shape or form, I had a lot of practice let's say."

"Keith…" Shiro placed his hand on Keith's shoulder. "I had no idea. I didn't realize-"

"Hey, it's fine. I wasn't planning on blabbing to you or Kuron about it years ago. Was always something Dad told me to keep a secret." He smiled faintly. "I would have if I could."

Shiro smiled back. "Yeah, I know."

The two kept smiling at each other before Lance made a loud coughing noise. "So, we going to go ahead and learn this voodoo stuff already?

"It isn't voodoo!" Keith stood up and stomped over towards Lance. "You take that back!"

"No! I bet it is some weird witchcraft that is going to make us all witches ready to be burned at the stake!"

Shiro pinched the bridge of his nose while glancing at Matt.

"Never a dull moment eh?" Matt grinned and wiggled his eyebrows.

Shiro chuckled slightly.

"Yeah, never a dull moment."