Mr. Pannis did not appear at the corner of the wall, but just happened to appear at the place Catherine had pointed to. After bowing to the female ghost with a hand on his chest, he said to Catherine, "I've brought back two messages, which one would you like to hear first?"
"Let's hear the bad one first," Catherine frowned, "Is there some trouble?"
"Bad news?" Mr. Pannis thought for a moment and said, "From all the buildings around us, there are more than fifteen hundred equally excited skeletons gathering here. The situation of being watched might happen once again. Skeletons, since they cannot speak, of course, won't be able to make that desperate noise like the ghosts just did, but imagine, over a thousand excited skeletons, clattering their jaws by our ears, rattling—um, I'm not mimicking it well. Little Deer, yes, that's right, good job—making a sound like that with their jaws slamming. I think that is definitely not an experience anyone would look forward to."
