Side Effects
Ivo said they were hallucinations, side effects of going off my meds without proper supervision. Withdrawing from any drug was the same - prescription or illicit. That was why I felt sick and couldn't sleep. If I went back on my meds, I would be fine.
But Isabel believed me. She explained to me that Danny was a troubled spirit, trying to communicate with me to ease his suffering, to help him find closure. He had been snatched from this life unexpectedly, violently. Murdered souls were unable to move on to the next world, they were left to wander aimlessly – angry, deracinated, disembodied. Danny was haunting me because I was the closest thing he had to Ivo. Ivo would never admit to spirits. Ivo was a man of science. He would say it was a hallucination. Which is what he did say...
I might have been shell-shocked by her profound belief in the supernatural had it not been for that one word spoken without any emphasis or warning.
Murdered.
Danny had been murdered.