playing on the PA. She looked back and gave him the Really? look, and Eastwood shrugged.“I put Williams on loop when I need to think.”“Fair enough. So here’s what you need to know . . .” Ree ran through an account of her visit to the Moorelys’, punctuated by her questions, which Eastwood waved off until she was done. She got to the breathless voicemail and sighed. The episode with the weresuit seemed more insane in retrospect, albeit more funny and less terrifying.Eastwood nodded. “So, like I said, the guy in the fur suit was an Atavist. They channel the power of a primal spirit, and for the truly hard-core Furrymancers, it means suits like that. The more they give in to the spirit, the more real their powers become.”“Freaky. And what about ghosts? Could Angela’s spirit still be there somewhere in the house?”Eastwood looked down and away, pacing without making eye contact. “Not likely. If she follows the pattern of the last two suicides, her soul is absent from the scene.”“So then there are ghosts.”“Yes.”Ree nodded, processing.
