William has handcuffed Frankie to the radiator at the back
of my old bedroom. He’s also boarded over the windows and added several locks
to the door. Sitting with my back to the door, trying to stay awake, I couldn’t
help but feel that having a Nightmare Person as our prisoner and not interrogating
him was a wasted opportunity.
I brought this up with William when he arrived in the
afternoon to relieve me and it was as if
the idea I had just never occurred to him.
Given that Frankie had tried to kill William during our takeover
of the lake house, we decided that the best way to interrogate Frankie would be
if all three of us - Gloria, William and I – entered the room armed. We only
have the one pistol, the one William took from Jennings body, so this was given
to Gloria.
Our questions mostly went unanswered. The only time we got a
straight answer out of Frankie was when the subject of the events that took
place in the lake house were brought up. Frankie claims that I was possessed by
the spirit of Doctor Manford and that, whilst possessed, I forced Frankie and
Emily to, in his words, "unify and thus bring about the destruction of man". He also claimed that it was the success of this “unification”
that had caused Manford’s spirit to depart from my body.
After the integration, William took guard of the room whilst
Gloria and I went downstairs to check on Emily. Her condition had improved overnight
and she seemed less tired and ill. The
three of us sat around the kitchen table and discussed, at great length, the implications
of Frankie’s claims.
I had been positive that the medication William had given me,
the stuff he had stolen from the DPIR prior to his assault on the lake house,
had been the thing that had driven away ArthurMan – who I assumed, as William
did, was a split personality the DPIR had somehow developed in my mind. Gloria
and Emily, however, side with Frankie’s more, shall we say, paranormal version
of the truth. Gloria uses the symbols as evidence, claiming that the Nightmare
People’s aversion to them cannot be explained by science. I, like William,
assumed that their unwillingness to cross the symbol was a superstitious fear –
not the creation of some sort of mystical barrier.
When Gloria took over from William at 6pm, William was very
pleased to see that his sister was feeling better. He did however, very
gravely, announce that tomorrow the three of us need to have a very serious
chat.
I write this now, just before I retire for the night,
certain that I know what William wants to tell us.
Time will tell if my suspicions are true.
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