Chapter four

When Novak made it back inside he was shaken, awed, and very much confused over what he had just experienced outside. He rang his hands nervously and kept his gaze down towards the floor as he stood near the entranceway of the lounge. His face was pale from fright and he slowly shook his head back and forth, as if he was silently telling himself "no". Bam and Ehrynn came up from the pirate bar and stopped cold in their tracks once they spotted Novak.

"Nov you ok?" Bam asked after a few seconds of silence. Novak shook his head again and looked up toward them "What happened?"
"Some-something outside…" He answered with a shaky voice
"What about outside?"
"Th-that woman from last night… I saw her and…"
"And what?" Bam asked as he led Novak over to the couch to sit down "You can tell us."

Bam sat next to Novak on the couch and Ehrynn stood back watching the two of them as Novak began to explain what happened.

"I… I saw her and she… she looked like she wanted me to follow her. I couldn't help it; it was like I was being hypnotized by her or something. I started to go up to her and some how I wound up chasing after her. I swear she was floating above the ground like she was a ghost…" He paused and looked at Bam, and then at Ehrynn. Both of them silently encouraged him to go on with his story "Some reason I felt like I had to um… to grab hold of her otherwise she was going to go away. But when I caught her we both fell to the ground and then… then she completely changed the way she looked. She was suddenly all old and mingan… and those eyes… her eyes were red . I mean red red, like almost glowing… I was so fucking scared when I saw those eyes and the way that she was looking at me. I wanted to get away but I… I couldn't."
"So you just held her there?" Bam asked
Novak gulped and nodded his head "Yeah… I-I couldn't move from my spot… And then she-she just disappeared. It was the freakiest fucking thing ever."
"She disappeared? Just like that?" Questioned Bam
Novak answered by nodding his head "I think we're being haunted…"
Ehrynn came up to the couch "Did she say anything before she disappeared?"
He looked up at her "Yeah… she said um… Kav… Kav…"
"Kavanagh?"
"Yeah that's it. How did you know?"

Bam looked at Ehrynn with slightly wide eyes once he saw the growing frightened expression on her face.

"That's one of the families you were telling me about."
"Aye…" She gave a nod of her head and looked at both of them square in the eye "And it is me last name."

Bam let out a little gasp and his jaw dropped open as he looked at her. Novak looked back and fourth between Bam and Ehrynn with a quizzical look upon his face.

"I don't get it. What's going on?"
"N-Novak…" Ehrynn started "That woman outside was the banshee."
"The banshee? What the fuck is that?"
"Well like I was telling Bam… the banshee, in Ireland, is the one who tells a family that someone in that family is about to die. If you catch her, she then gives you the name of the person who is about to die… and when you caught her she said my last name…"
"So that means…" Novak looked at Ehrynn and then and Bam. Bam nodded his head and then Novak looked down into his lap once he realized "Oh God…" He paused and then looked up at Ehrynn "Y-you're dying?"
"I wish it weren't true… but you could put it that way."

Dunn, Dico and Raab all entered the room right at the tail end of the conversation and went up to the couch.

"So who's dying?" Asked Dico with a slight grin

His curious grin faded quickly once he saw the expressions that fell upon their faces.

"What's going on?" Dunn asked
"You guys might want to sit down." Bam said gently
"What? Why?"
"Because, Raab, this is going to take a little bit to explain."