"Wow, that was too close." Violet said to Klaus as they leaned against the desk.
"I'm just glad we're all safe and okay." he said.
Both of them felt they needed to take some time to relax and take in everything that had happened so far that day before exploring some more, so they went and sat down on one of the sofas to rest while Sunny crawled over to the mah jongg table to bite at the table leg. Klaus leaned back against the sofa and closed his eyes to think about what had happened when his thoughts were interrupted by Violet saying "Klaus, did you feel something."
He turned to look at his older sister and said "No, why?"
"I swear I just felt a breeze in here." she said.
Klaus leaned against the sofa and said to her "You're imagining things, Violet."
"Whatever." Violet said sarcastically as she got up and walked over to the concierge desk. She was interested in looking at the old guestbook and seeing who had stayed at the hotel the night it was closed down. As she ran her finger down the list of names, she felt the page move underneath her hand. Freaked out, she pulled her hand away from the book and the page did indeed turn on its own. Violet's eyes grew huge and was about to tell Klaus to get over there when she felt a rush of air above her other hand, which was resting right next to the book. She jerked it off the desk, and just in time too because a fountain pen fell down and stabbed into the desk right where her hand had been. Really scared out, she yelled out "Klaus!"
Klaus, having heard the pen stab into the desk, jumped up from the sofa and ran over to the desk, where Violet looked like she had seen a ghost. "What happened this time?" he asked her.
"The book…it moved…on its own…and…th-the pen…almost…" she stammered, pointing to the book and fountain pen.
Klaus folded his arms and stared at Violet with disbelief as he said "You know Violet, all those years of inventing has left you with quite an imagination."
"What! Are you saying you don't believe me!" Violet exclaimed.
"I'm saying you're imagining things, so get over it." Klaus snapped back.
Violet was just about to tell Klaus he was stupid for thinking such a thing, when they heard Sunny let out a terrifying scream. They turned around and saw something that horrified them. The mah jongg table that Sunny had been chewing on was rocking violently back and forth, threatening to topple over and hit the littlest Baudelaire. Sunny sat there kicking and screaming in fear, too scared to move away. Klaus instinctively ran over to his sister and grabbed her just in time, as the table finally fell over and struck the floor where Sunny had been sitting.
"Sunny, calm down. You're gonna be okay." Klaus said to her as he stroked her back.
Violet ran her fingers through Sunny's hair and said "It's okay, we'll keep you safe."
Sunny shrieked through her tears "Neesa!" which meant "That table could have killed me!" Klaus bounced Sunny in his arms to try and get her to calm down, realizing that Violet had not been kidding earlier about the book and the fountain pen.
"Violet, I'm sorry for not believing you. Something is seriously wrong here." he said to her.
"Q is definitely right, something is haunting this place." Violet said, sounding worried. "But what?"
Their questions were quickly answered by Sunny suddenly shrieking "Yama!" which meant "Look at the owl!" and pointing at the owl statue in the center of the lobby. Violet and Klaus slowly turned around, and what they saw made their eyes bulge out and their jaws drop open. The eyes of the owl statue were glowing bright red and they heard an evil laughter accompanying it.
"Leave us alone! We didn't do anything to you!" Violet cried out at the unseen source of the laughter, clinging to Klaus' arm in terror.
"Why did you try to hurt Sunny? She's just a baby!" Klaus yelled out, holding her even closer to him.
The children backed quickly away from the owl towards the concierge desk. The pen that had been stabbed into the desk quickly lifted itself up and flew toward Violet's head, but she ducked just in time and it stabbed into one of the pillars instead. Now absolutely terrified, Violet pulled Klaus and Sunny away from the desk and towards the elevator.
"Please don't hurt us." she begged, nearing tears herself. Suddenly, she and her siblings felt an intense heat on their backs that made them realize whoever was doing this to them was serious about frightening them. They turned around and saw with horror that the elevator doors were open and a raging fire burned in the shaft.
The Baudelaires huddled tightly together, fearing they would be seriously injured or killed by now. Klaus, who was about to lose his temper by now, screamed out "What kind of joke is this! We're just children!"
Sunny was completely hysterical by now, her face was tomato red from screaming and crying. Violet just buried her face into Klaus' shoulder, praying it would all be over. "You've been bad children, very bad children." a man's voice called out and the Baudelaires looked up to see something they had never expected to see and something that proved Q was right: a ghostly figure of a gentleman in a suit that had apparently been haunting the Hollywood Tower Hotel for 60 years.