Macario ran down the stairs of the main house in Aspen. He was tired of the jokes about his name. He'd heard them all, Macaroni, Ma-Cairo, Macaroon. He now preferred to be called Mac. He was a member of the paranormal investigation team known as the Sodalitas.

His partner, Allegra, soon joined him. They hadn't worked together in several months, not since the strange case of astral catalepsy they investigated. That particular case had been scary, mainly because they needed the help of a rather violent vampire known simply as Nazaire.

Today, they would be investigating the haunting of a nearby hotel. Several people reported strange sightings on the fourth floor, and the Sodalitas was determined to prove that it was a haunting, though the information would never be seen by the public. It never was.

To be continued...