Reverence [Shyan]

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"Hey, sounding good."

Shane walked in to Ryan playing around on the guitar he had claimed for himself a while back. His phone was propped up on the arm of the couch in front of him as Ryan tried to read the tiny tab numbers he had opened on his screen. He'd pluck a few strings, and then try to quickly scroll down as he got to the next part. Shane picked a different sofa chair and sat down comfortably, reclined and legs propped up on the coffee table.

"Why, thank you. I've had a lot of time to practice."

"You've really improved, it's pretty impressive. There was a few songs I really liked..."

"This one?"

"Yeah, this one was one of them, but there was another one especially..."

"Tell me when I play it again and I'll play it more often."

"I'd love that." Shane couldn't help but smile as he watched Ryan strum, concentration fully back on his phone screen.

"I found another place." Ryan hadn't looked up from his tab as he said this, continuing to play as Shane watched him.

"What?"

"Somewhere I can go for the blog."

"Aren't you still using your cane? You should be fully functional before we do anything."

"I'm fine - my therapist said I'll be off it really soon."

"Alright. So..." Ryan stopped playing to look Shane in the eye as he posed his question: "What is this place you have in mind?" Ryan set aside the guitar to pay full attention to his friend.

"It's an abandoned amusement park called the Holy Land-"

"The Holy Land? Isn't that in Bethlehem or something?"

"No," Ryan laughed, leaning back, "It's an amusement park in Connecticut."

"So we're going to do a pilgrimage across the entire country for a few haunted Jesus roller-coasters?" Ryan wheezed really hard and Shane thought about what he had said a little more before cracking up with him.

"Sorry to disappoint, but there aren't really any rides..."

"So a bunch of nuns went and recreated the Holy Land?"

"Actually, there still are a bunch of nuns 'maintaining' the park - but just its exterior apparently."

"Wow, I'm glad I can finally cross 'taking a pilgrimage' off my bucket list," Shane drawled, dripping with sarcasm. Ryan rolled his eyes. "Has anything interesting happened there? For your blog?"

"There was a teenage girl assaulted and murdered by the park-"

"Oh god that's so horrible."

"I know, right?"

"Is that it?"

"Yeah."

"It's not that haunted of a park then... and it was outside the park too, wasn't it?"

"I think so."

"Is it really haunted enough to your taste?"

Ryan adopted a far away look as he would get at times. He was still gazing at Shane, yet he would not have looked any different if Shane was not there. Blinking, he cocked his head as he thought of an answer.

"It's fine. An amusement park will be a nice change, and the roadtrip will be fun. We'd have to leave Friday evening though - if we wanted to get there and be back... soon. So that you don't have to miss too much work."