Gathering up the rest of Paper Museum is harder than Landis assumed it would be - he’d assumed that he knew the places that they all go to be alone, but it looks like they’re all better at keeping secrets from him than he is from them. By the time he, Grace, and Otter track down Danton and Jeremy (enviously watching people at the ice cream parlor, and illicitly practicing moving a bow across one of the high school orchestra’s cellos), it’s been over an hour. Abbie and the ghosts she took in tow with her are surely at the lake house by now, even in the unlikely event that they did hit traffic on the way. Landis tries hard not to think about what might happen if the ghost killer shows up at the lake house without Otter there to handle it.
[singing softly] el muchacho de los ojos tristes...