The disclaimer telling you that I don't own Ghosts has been whisked away by a séance. The latest Halloween episode left me and I bet a lot of other people wondering about a certain incident with a certain ghost and a vault door.

Flower's Power

"Well, another Halloween has come and gone," Sasappis remarked as the ghosts walked outside. "Good riddance."

"I think it was very educational," Pete said cheerfully as Flower wandered off. "We learned that under the right circumstances, seances actually do work!"

"We also learned that Sam and Jay are terrible at throwing parties," Trevor remarked. "Not to mention making friends. That are still alive."

"We also learned that Hetty considers us peasants," Sasappis glared at Hetty.

"Shocking," Trevor deadpanned.

"Not all of you," Hetty defended. "Just the majority. I choose not to say who's not to spare everyone's feelings."

"That means she think we're all peasants," Thorfinn spoke up.

"I learned that Hetty is gonna be stuck with us for a long, long, long time…" Alberta remarked.

"Why is Elias' corpse still in the vault?" Isaac mused. "I would have thought Samantha and Jay would have gotten rid of it by now."

"It's kind of hard to smuggle out a body when workmen and guests are around," Alberta explained.

"They could just report it. All they'd have to do is call the police and say they figured out the combination to a secret vault and when they opened it…" Pete paused. "I mean it's not like they're going to be charged with murder. And they can pretend they just found the corpse so…"

"Yeah, that would go real well," Trevor said sarcastically. "Headline News! The centuries old mystery of Robber Baron Elias Woodstone has been solved! Film at eleven!"

"Right…" Pete realized. "That's not good publicity at all for the B&B."

"You think?" Trevor snapped. "We're still barely recovering from that whole protestor thing blowback because Sass had to lie about that stupid tree!"

"It wasn't a stupid tree!" Sasappis snapped. "It was my Shiki Tree! It's where I put a mark every time Shiki said hi to me. Which now that I say it aloud was not only stupid but pathetic."

"Should have had Sam or Jay put same marks on one of the other five-hundred-year-old trees on property," Thorfinn remarked.

"Other trees?" Trevor did a double take.

"Yes, at least six other trees that were same age," Thorfinn nodded. "Mostly over in western corner. Some older ones in northeast corner…"

"There are at least six other trees on this property the same age?" Trevor shouted.

"Eight actually," Sasappis admitted. "I forgot about those."

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" Alberta shouted. "EIGHT OTHER TREES? ON THIS PROPERTY?"

"Oy gevalt," Trevor moaned.

"We're lucky those protestors didn't stay long," Pete spoke up.

"That's because they found someone new to protest," Trevor told him. "Apparently there's a country club in the next town that are planning to cut down some old trees that don't have anything wrong with them. And have a restrictive policy on who they let in."

"Boy this bed and breakfast thing is not going well," Pete sighed.

"At least now the livings can take these stupid ghost decorations down," Isaac waved at the decorations with distaste. "I mean…Sheets with eyes are supposed to be ghosts? Seriously? What is the deal with that?"

"Technically they're gender neutral," Trevor mused. "So they could be lady ghosts."

"Gadzooks Trevor…" Isaac rolled his eyes. "Must you always have the fairer sex on the brain?"

"Some of them could be guy ghosts!" Trevor protested.

"Yeah, like I'd find that attractive," Isaac snorted.

"You have to admit," Pete spoke up. "This was one of our more interesting Halloweens in decades."

"Considering the majority of them were us standing around and watching children vandalize my home," Hetty remarked. "Not that high a bar to pass."

"I think it was too interesting for Sam," Alberta groaned. "She nearly died last night!"

"Yeah, suffocation is not a good way to go," Sasappis agreed.

"Thorfinn not understand," Thorfinn frowned. "How did Sam get caught in vault in the first place?"

"Flower got confused and shoved the door on her," Alberta groaned.

"Hang on…" Isaac blinked. "Flower…closed the door to the vault?"

"Wait since when can Flower move things?" Trevor blinked. "I thought I was the only one who could do that?"

"That was rather strange," Hetty remarked.

"I know that vault has some kind of metal that repels us..." Pete frowned. "I guess we can touch it but...Moving a door? That's a little surprising."

"Maybe it was because it was Halloween?" Alberta suggested. "And the veil between the living and the dead was thinner?"

"But none of us have ever been able to do that before," Isaac told her.

"To be fair none of us have ever tried to do that before," Sasappis pointed out.

"You don't think Flower has another power we don't know about?" Pete asked.

"A ghost can't have two different powers!" Hetty bristled. "Especially since some of us don't have a clue what our power is! Even after all these centuries."

"Why not?" Pete asked. "Alberta can interact with the Alexa. She can actually talk to it! That's another power!"

"But that's an offshoot of her power to hum her voice into the realm of the living," Isaac explained. "It's technically not different. Who knows? Alberta's powers might be growing and eventually she can project her actual voice into the realm of the living. But Flower having a completely different power? That's unheard of!"

"It has to be the Halloween thing," Alberta remarked. "That's the only possible explanation."

"Yeah, because touching things is my thing," Trevor remarked. "I'm the go to guy for that!"

"Not that it did much good in this situation," Sasappis remarked.

"I'm not the one who put the iPad in the drawer!" Trevor shouted.

"But you did forget to put the word in between Sam and Safe," Sasappis told him.

"I didn't forget! I was tired! You think it's so easy writing things without a body?" Trevor snapped. "You do it! Go on! I'd love to see you try!"

"Enough!" Alberta spoke up. "It's not Trevor's fault Sam got locked in the vault, it's Flower's!"

"Again, how did she do that?" Trevor asked.

"Do what?" Flower ambled towards them.

"Flower how did you move the door?" Trevor asked her.

"What door?" Flower blinked.

"The door on the vault, you bohemian blatherskite!" Hetty shouted.

"The what now?" Flower blinked.

Isaac remarked. "Something tells me the answers which we seek are not to be found in this particular line of questioning."

"Flower," Alberta sighed. "I know it's hard. But try to think. Last night. You locked Sam in the vault. Remember? You pushed the door. You actually touched something in the physical world. Remember?"

"Oh yeah…" Flower blinked.

"How did you do that?" Alberta asked. "And don't say did what! How did you know the door would move if you interacted with it?"

"I don't know," Flower blinked.

"Well, that's a shocker," Isaac quipped.

"And you wonder why I consider the lot of you peasants," Hetty grumbled.

"I could have had an excess of cosmic energy within me," Flower remarked. "Sometimes I can get really tethered to the earth and feel all that cosmic energy within…Whoa…." She stared off into space.

"So…?" Trevor blinked. "Halloween thing?"

"Looks like," Isaac shrugged. "I can't think of any other reason."

"You're saying in theory…" Pete realized. "Any of us ghosts can move objects on Halloween?"

"It's the only thing that makes sense," Alberta shrugged. "Not that anything about last night made much sense."

"So basically, we have to wait an entire year to find out if that theory is true?" Sasappis remarked.

"Not like we're going anywhere," Trevor told him.

"Great," Sasappis said sarcastically.

"Look at the bright side," Pete said cheerfully. "It's something to look forward to for next year!"

"Huzzah," Isaac deadpanned. "Well, no use milling about outside. Let's go mill about inside."

"Maybe there's something good on TV?" Pete suggested cheerfully as the others went inside. Flower remained behind in a trance. "Flower? Flower?"

"Leave her," Alberta waved. "She'll be back in a bit."

"It had to the Halloween thing," Hetty remarked. "That's the only explanation. Which makes sense if you think about it. More sense than Flower having another power."

The others left Flower happily staring into space. A small bird flew around and landed next to her.

"Hello little friend," Flower stood perfectly still and held out her hand.

The bird chirped and flew up. It landed in Flower's hand and stayed there for a full twenty seconds before flying away.

"Bye!" Flower waved happily and went inside.