"More like something happened to the whole town - a prank with buckets of apples on everyone's doorstep, and skeletons seemingly simultaneously unearthed in all the local graveyards."

Which had sounded much less like a prank, really.

"We made the news - Mossgate in general did, not us specifically."

That would have been a nightmare, Echoes or no Echoes.

"The problem is, I can tell you what's been happening, but I don't have physical proof on hand. Nothing that you couldn't dismiss, anyway."

He was tempted to pause the feed, check if Russell's bone had been caught on the footage - but no, best not to waste time.

"Your aunt doesn't know, though, or we'd never have heard the end of it."