Lake Lewisia #616

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After the incident with the detective, the ghost and the hitchhiker had to use some forethought in addition to their general cleverness to make sure no one else decided the jar of grave dirt and bone signaled something more sinister than unusual traveling companions. The story about historical preservation research had worked, just barely, thanks to the ghost's knowledge of obscure historical details that could be whispered to her partner in plain view of the detective, so they stuck with that. Now the great hiking backpack made room for stacks of notebook pages of dates and locations and library photocopies of old regional maps as well, and what had begun as a protective ruse had become an unexpectedly genuine quest for strange history.

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