6
They got a call on the way back in. "Pete's back," Ray said, still on his phone. "Wants to know if we can meet him at an apartment building for a quick inspection."
Egon asked, "Is the place actually haunted?"
Ray relayed the query. "Oh, yeah. Years of residents seeing and hearing things."
"Scary things?" asked Winston.
Ray waited for a response. "Well, some of the residents have felt a little uneasy from time to time. A few people have moved out 'cause it bothered them, but otherwise nothing actually violent or…what was that?" He listened for a moment. "Oh, a plant once got knocked over and some old woman's cat jumped off her balcony and ran away when a picture fell off the wall."
"Sounds minor," Winston said.
"Worth checking out," Egon decided.
"We'll be there," Ray told Pete. He ended the call and spoke the address into the phone's GPS navigation system.
"This time," Winston told the girl, "you might actually get to see something."
"I think she should wait in the car," Egon said from the driver's seat. "We have only one PKE meter left."
"Do you mind waiting?" asked Ray, turning around to face her from his seat.
The girl shrugged.
Winston asked her, "Is anyone waiting for you? Do you need to call anyone?"
"No."
Ray asked, "Really? I mean…you don't think we're just going to take you in like a little lost dog, do you? Make you an honorary member of the team?"
She sighed.
Egon decided, "When we get through here, you need to tell us where you live or where you're staying so we can drop you off."
"'kay," she said indifferently, returning her gaze to the shops that lined the street they followed.
Ray looked at Egon and again it was as if they shared some silent form of communication. Winston chalked it up to the pair knowing each other for so long. He understood the look anyway; they were both intrigued by the notion that the stranger was indeed somehow special in a paranormal way.