#scarsdale

She nods

"Now, Bubbe might show up. She's still a very new wraith, but..."

"What if she goes after him? Will it interfere with our plans?" Lily asks

"We wish to educate him. He does not yet understand that he has done wrong."

"If Bubbe is able to make that lesson clear, all to the better."

They all hear the car returning. Who knows where he went for his drugs, but they probably haven't had time to really kick in

"fucking songs.. " sounds of shakey hands trying to get keys to get into his house

"..places..."

And 'Zeke' goes to position

The sluagh scatter - wherever Reginald might go, he will not be alone.

A push on the remote, and burnt-flesh scented haze curls from the vents.

It hangs low, slowly gathering into a thick soup around the mortal's ankles.

He clambers in....shaking a botttle of pills...

and goes to the kitchen... "Gonna get some sleep" He puts the pills down to get the glass of water

nose wrinkling... as he smells? No no.. he'll ignore it

"... no rest for the wicked, Reg...."

"WHo.. said.. that?"

He whirls... just in time for agonized moaning to come from the halls

"...We, the dead..."

"My pills..." He reaches for the pills that..may not be there

Seems not!

Zara checks to see just what he got - sedatives?

Sedatives...mm she could replace those. Symon might have a few goodies too. His dad gives him access to some pharmaceticals

But for now... they seem to be "misplaced."

He scrambles about, looking for...

Pillbox! There it is… oh, it’s filled with… ash

"Ah!" Reginald backs up....

Something drips on his neck...

And his hand swats to the back of it

Wet!

"This is not..." He pulls the hand back.... and looks at the wet. Water right? Please let it be water

Certainly, blood is some percentage water...

His breathing grows ragged, rushed... he's pale again "Levi... You were.. you were going to give up the money... you... you were going to tell you have to understand.." He whimpers

he smells smoke...and ash..

Levi stares at him - no, that’s just a shadow. Is it?

Well, Levi if he were soot-smeared and scarred with horrific burns... but the hair, the charred clothing...

He reaches for a kitchen knife "I'll kill you again!"

and that's when it gets... cold.

The shock of it stalls him... he eyes the knife.."Cold? Why.."

then... the chill fades... no, reverses...flames dance in the reflection of the kitchen knife

as an angry old woman can find no other way to make her presence known... "You killed my family, you horrid boy. I Hope you burn too!"

And he drops the now redhot knife "AH!"

But reg doesn't hear the ghost, he can't. The slaugh can, and do

Reg can hear it - the crackle of flames, and the screams.

And then there is the sound of rolling coins, quarters, pennies, dimes....

and the fuddle on them giving each the face of one of the burning victims

"For money, you horrid boy."

And he absolutely loses it... "I DID it, I confess... I killed them.. I burned them... " He races towards the door... more ash falling on him, coins seeming to GLARE at him...

as he goes out side and screams "I'm the arsonist! I Killed Levi and his family! I did it for money! !"

"Just make it it stop!!!!" HE begs the neighborhood