Sophie (lambsbooks)’s Reviews > Odd Spirits > Status Update

Time slowed to a crawl around him. This wasn't possible. Moreover, he wasn't prepared. How was he supposed to make normal human conversation with anyone, much less a beautiful young woman, when he hadn't been expecting anyone at all? He needed warning before these kinds of things. Maybe an anxiety pill or two.

It was at that moment the portrait on the wall behind him began to weep blood. Moira stood stock still for a moment, frozen by horror, and she gave her husband a withering glance.