Two!! 'link' | Keep It Down, You

“Maybe,” Lena said, picking up the broken lamp, “we should try being quiet for a whole day. See if she even notices.”

Leo pulled one earbud out. “Nah. She means the ghost.”

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“What ghost?”

And for a long moment, the only sound in the room was the hum of the streetlight outside—trying, and failing, to be louder than the silence they’d learned to live in. “Maybe,” Lena said, picking up the broken lamp,

Silence.

Leo put the earbud back in. He turned the volume up. Then, quietly, deliberately, he kicked the wall. Once. Twice. ” Lena said

They waited. A train passed a mile away. The radiator sighed.