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Stice stuck to the window — "Somebody did come by before,’ he…"

quote

‘Somebody did come by before,’ he said. ‘There was somebody standing back there about maybe an hour back. But he just stood there. Then he went away. Or… it.’ A full-body shiver.

Context

Stice has been stuck facing the glass since about 0100, identifying passersby only by sound — and something stood behind him, just stood there, and left. The pronoun slide from "he" to "Or… it," plus the full-body shiver, does the haunting in three words; this is what the wraith's stillness would look like from a chair you can't turn around in. Carlisle asks, and leaves open: was it the wraith?

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