When Belle asked the question, the clouds thundered up in the sky, and the flashes of lightning fell on the ground. She should have known, especially when there were fragments of her imagination that had shown who he was or more to say, he was the man with the skeleton face.
"Yes," he replied to her, and she took in a deep breath. It wasn't because he knew people in and around this place like the white witch or the oracle, but he knew many things because he came from the land of the dead, "Give me a moment," he said to her.
She saw him pick up the shovel and start pushing the mud into the hollow pit where the dead man laid. Raindrops had started to pitter-patter down the sky, and Lucas looked at Barron, "Take her inside."
Barron only hoped by this conversation that Lucas was not going to reap him along with the rest of the creatures who had shown up at the Adams' residence.
