I admit I screamed, too, a combined reaction, part nervousness for my illegal break and enter and part expenditure of extra energy I'd been feeding with my angst the last few hours. Alice grabbed for me and I grabbed right back and the pair of us shrieked like co-eds in a bad horror movie as the stationary image of my Grandmother Iris glared at us in all her glowing, rigid glory.
Footsteps pounded overhead, someone racing down the stairs. I barely had time to shut off my panicked reaction when the light flared into life and the ghostly image disappeared. Denver stared at both of us with huge eyes, mouth gaping open and we stared in frozen dread right back.
I was expecting him to call Crew, to shout at us to get out, to do something along the lines that a normal person would do if he found two strangers snooping around his living room.
Instead, Denver's eyes locked on Alice and he actually smiled in dazed surprise.