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тАЬSo you know what happened, but youтАЩre just not talking? Unfair,тАЭ said Suki. She reached out as
though to tickle him, growled when her hands went right through him. He laughed anyway.
тАЬLooks like nobodyтАЩs going to tell me anything.тАЭ Matt felt frustrated.
тАФIтАЩll tell you,тАФthe house whispered to her through the palms of her hands.тАФLater.тАФ
 Paradoxically, Matt wondered if she should even ask. People ought to be in charge of their own
stories. She didnтАЩt even know Julio, someone Edmund and Suki had been friends with for most of their
childhoods. How would Julio feel about some stranger poking into his life story? Maybe it was none of
her business.
She suggested this to the house.
The house waited a moment.тАФIтАЩll think about that. LetтАЩs talk in dreams tonight.тАФ
Matt bit her lip. The house told her lots of things in dreams. She wasnтАЩt awake enough to say no, and
she never wanted to anyway; everything the house told her was fascinating. Maybe this was its sneaky
way of getting around her better self.
тАЬWe have to find Julio another way,тАЭ Edmund said. тАЬNathan, can you help us?тАЭ
тАЬWhat if youтАЩre correct? What if Julio doesnтАЩt want to be found?тАЭ
тАЬWhat if heтАЩs like me and doesnтАЩt know he wants to be found?тАЭ Suki asked.
тАЬCan you still do that thing where you get inside him? Could you find him that way?тАЭ Edmund asked
Nathan.
тАЬEdmundтАФтАЭ said Nathan.
тАЬLetтАЩs look for your other friend instead,тАЭ suggested Matt. тАЬDeirdre. We can worry about Julio
later.тАЭ
Edmund glanced at her, then smiled. He flattened the map with his palm, spoke to the lead weight
again, kissed it, sat back, took some deep breaths and let them out slowly, then held the weight above
the map. тАЬDeirdre. Deirdre,тАЭ he murmured.
The weight circled for a long time, and then pulled itself to a stop. Matt and Edmund leaned closer. A
tiny town in central Oregon, a clear circle that meant it was unincorporated. тАЬArtemisia,тАЭ Edmund read
aloud. тАЬWhatтАЩs she doing there?тАЭ
тАЬLetтАЩs go find out.тАЭ Matt measured distances with her thumb, muttered figures to herself. тАЬLooks like
about two hundred seventy miles.тАЭ She glanced at the sun. Still high in the sky. EdmundтАЩs car was great,
but it didnтАЩt go very fast, and they had two mountain ranges to cross, though the first one, the Coast
Range, wasnтАЩt very tall.
тАЬWeтАЩll go tomorrow.тАЭ Edmund glanced at Suki and Nathan. тАЬYou want to come?тАЭ
Nathan shrugged. тАЬIf you need me, call me up.тАЭ Most days the only way he could get away from the
haunted house was by being summoned to a s├йance.
Suki said, тАЬIтАЩd rather wait and find out if she wants to see us. You do all the intrusive stuff. Besides, I
have an interview. Who knows. I might get a job.тАЭ
A job! Getting a job was like nailing your foot to the floor, Matt thought. Especially a good job.
Although Suki had walked away from the job sheтАЩd held in California for several years. Matt had walked
away from lots of little stopgap jobs, the kind that werenтАЩt meant to last, but sheтАЩd never had a job she
wanted to keep.
Suki was different. Maybe she wanted to nail her feet to the floor here.
тАЬHey, good luck.тАЭ Edmund looked at Matt. тАЬYouтАЩll come?тАЭ
тАЬOf course. IтАЩm already packed.тАЭ

THAT night Matt lay alone in one of the beds in JulioтАЩs old room. She could hear EdmundтАЩs slow
sleep breaths from the other bed. After years of sleeping alone, she had gotten used to sleeping beside
him, liked waking up tangled with him, snuggled up against his warmth and wrapped in his
sagebrush-and-woodsmoke scent, but she had told him that tonight she needed to sleep with her dreams.
The house hummed around her. She knew it was waiting for her to fall asleep so it could talk to her.
She had never known another being who could walk into her dreams, turn them into its playground, its