TALES FROM MORTIFER HOUSE - Part Ten - Breaking The Code - Secrets and Lies
Eleanor waited a week or so for Angus to return to Mortifer and disappear again. She then extracted the coded journal from the study and went to the drawing room to try and decipher it. Things had been so quiet in the house since she had issued her threat that she almost believed she had frightened the spirits into submission.. Almost. Also it seemed her powers of reading peoples fates was thankfully fading, she felt now that had been the entity's way of getting her initial attention. She couldn't explain any of it or even begin to understand either. It was all so bizarre and beyond anything she'd ever come across it bewildered her on a daily basis. It took so much concentration to try and work the code out and read the faded writing that Eleanor ended up with quite the headache but she spent hours pouring over the journal to the point that her family wondered where she was half the time. Every chance she got she would do a bit more, even if it was only a few words. Th...