¡°What do you mean? What was what?¡± Sam asked. As she looked at him. ¡°Are you okay, you look like you¡¯ve seen a ghost,¡±?
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(Braxton)
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"I... I didn't _see_ anything," Braxton said, shuddering as he looked around the doorway, into the room and just behind him, feeling anxious. "But I sure as hell _felt_ something.? Like a freezing wind, except that this passed right through me.? I swear, Sam, there's something not right about this place.? I keep... hearing things, when there's nothing there.? Sometimes I think I see things, but when I look again it's like it's just ducked around the corner and I just missed it."
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"And weird stuff keeps happening.? One day my boots went missing, but the next morning I found them sitting outside my door, all nice and polished."? He looked to Scheherezade questioningly.? "Has anything like that happened to you?"