The Exhibit

Caught

Kendra 🌙
Oh my god. We were caught. Hannah, Josie and I ran out to see what the bang was.

After we heard some arguing, the pirates appeared in front of us. "Sorry about that noise lassies", said Long Ben. "Blackbeard here is a real klutz."

"It's not my fault I have a peg leg!"

Alright! Don't start arguing again!" exclaimed Black Bart. "We want to know what you girls were doing at this door. It's locked for a reason."

I suddenly felt a pang of confidence.
I narrowed my eyes at the smelly pirate. "We want to know why you have two dead bodies encased in glass!"

All three pirates went pale. "W-we can explain that.

You see, two of our crew mates died months before we became spirits. Before we became spirits, we found the scroll that you girls found in the museum.

It said that we needed to make a trade. So, we encased their bodies in glass, hoping that one day a spirit will bring them back."

We were in shock. The pirates were more insane than I thought. "What do you have to do with the spirit?"

Josie questioned. Long Ben laughed. "We have to trap the spirit in the glass and chant a spell that will send the spirit into the dead body.

Then, it'll come back to life!" Thank goodness the pirates didn't know Onyx was here. Otherwise she would've been gone for good.

"Well, we'll go to our sleeping quarters now. Goodnight pirates."

All three of them saluted and me, Josie, and Hannah went to our sleeping quarters.

We gathered in my room to talk. "Maybe we can find a way to trap the pirates in the glass?" I suggested.

"Yeah. That could work, but what will we do if we DO trap them?"

"We'll have to figure it out in the morning. Goodnight, girls."

Hannah and Josie left my room and I crawled into bed.

What were we gonna do? I lay there on my back, wide awake. I was wondering how I was going to fall asleep on this sorry excuse for a bed.

Eventually, I fell into an uneasy sleep.