Right, Mrs. Cartwright's first event since Noble pulled her out of the water. (And, he realized — her first event since they'd pushed her back in.) He swallowed. "Oh," Noble said. He was going to have to avoid her. This had been more doable at the funeral, where Mrs. Cartwright was the only ghost — he was not entirely sure he'd be able to pull it off now.

"We shouldn't be talking," he said. She'd pointed that out, but also she was here, and — what if Mrs. Cartwright saw them together, and it sparked something in her ghostly memory? (He really did need to talk to Ford about how ghost-memories worked. And soon, too, if things like this were going to happen.)

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