Chapter Sixty-Five

“So, what did you crazy kids get into today?” Sebastian asked with a grin as they sat down to dinner later that night.

“We meddled in the private affairs of the wealthy man who owns the haunted mansion at the upper end of town and solved the mystery of the rattling chains,” Jaxsen answered Sebastian with a grin. “We made new friends. Brothers that moved here a couple weeks ago. They’re twins.”

Sebastian smiled. “Yeah?”

“Mhm.” Jaxsen forked a mouthful of spaghetti into his mouth.

“The boy we met first, River, he’s deaf. Some kids roughed him up, but Jaxsen calmed him down and signed with him, and then we took him home. That’s where we were when you called. We were killing zombies on Xbox,” Basil told them.

Jaxsen grinned and looked at Nizhoni. “I’m really glad you taught me how to sign, Mamma. It really came in handy today.”

Nizhoni smiled. “The pleasure is all mine, Yanaha.”