It was dark when they entered the lobby of Waverly Hills. Ramon was waiting for them in the lobby. He smiled when he saw them, visibly relaxing some.
"Good, you're here," he said.
"Is something wrong?" Ayana asked, instantly on alert.
"No, just everyone here is on edge given the last few nights." He looked at Mifa and smiled a bit once more. "Managed to stay together this time?"
"More or less," Mifa said with a smile.
Ramon's eyes went over to the others. He nodded to Agent Whitfield but then stopped on Dan. "Um... isn't that...?"
"The leader of the ghost-hunting group, yes," Ayana answered. "He also was the cultist who killed the cat and summoned the shadow creature."
"But why is he... here... Like that?"
"The creature got him," Mifa said. "Which means I don't have to be bait," she said cheerily, which drew a reproachful look from her mentor.
"Well, it does." Mifa shrugged, her voice sounding more like a scolded teenager.
