The Den Spirit

Chapter 4: Off to Den

Christy woke up the next morning around 9. She was all packed so she didn't have to worry about getting things together.

She fixed herself a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast, and around ten fifty five, heard a knock on her apartment door. She opened it up to see Dora and a man she didn't recognize.

"Our escort," Dora explained. He nodded at Christy. She put out her hand. "Christy Dean," she said.

"Matt Hills," the escort/ driver said. Christy smiled and helped him load her bags into the luxury RV. Christy guessed that the company loaned it to him.

On the way to Randy's apartment on the Lower West Side, Dora whispered to Christy in the table area in the RV, "You don't know what happened to Christine Daee do you." It was more of a statement than a question.

"I know she married Raoul de Chaggney." Christy offered. Dora shook her head.

"And they had a son named Philippe after Raoul's dead brother," Christy said. "And Philippe de Chaggney married Anne Marie, and they had a son named Marcus. Marcus de Chaggney married Sorelli de Belle and they had a daughter named Jacqueline de Chaggney. Jacqueline moved to America and married John Dean. John and Jacqueline are my parents."

Christy said.

"You know about the mad man Christine had affairs with?" Dora said.

"Well, I know he killed himself. Behind a set piece too." Christy said.

Dora nodded. "Well, my great grandmother associated with that mad man. My grandmother was Madame Giry. She was the mad man's friend. The "mad man" was named Erik. He had a life and a story too, Christy."

"He wore a mask," Christy said. "People called him a phantom and a ghost. He lived in the sewers of the opera!"

Dora shushed her.

In the busy traffic of NYC, Dora told Christy the whole story of her great grandmother and Christy'a great great grandmother.