Joshua knocked on the surface of the door before he heard the man on the other side say, "Come in," and he did that by turning the knob and stepping inside the room.

"Good afternoon, Councilman Lionel," he bowed his head to show respect to the senior man who wore a monocle on one of his eyes and the beard on his chin pointed. The man looked busy with the papers he was looking at on his desk while there was a stack of documents placed on his side. Was the councilman working on all the papers by himself?

When Councilman Lionel looked up from his papers, to see who had entered the room, the man frowned.

"You were supposed to report here yesterday. Have you been slacking councilman Joshua?" asked Lionel with a stern voice.

"No no, Sir. I was getting the report, and it took me a while to get back here," replied Joshua. His head-turning to look behind him and then back at his senior. It was just a week ago. He was reposted to work under Lionel, "I have found something very important."

"Speak."

Joshua pressed his lips together, stepping forward to say, "Sir, there are people who are back from the dead."

Councilman Lionel narrowed his eyes at the man who stood in front of his desk, "Have you been drinking?"

"What? No! I am telling you the truth. I saw the girl's mother, and I heard her speak," said Joshua before adding more to it, "I am hundred percent sure that it is her mother. The same woman who was buried not a few weeks ago or months ago."

The elder councilman who had his back leaning against the chair moved towards the table to say, "There is nothing called as ghosts, Councilman Joshua. At least not when it comes to people who die, they die and don't come back-"

"That woman did! Not only that, but the butler who is working there is also possibly a witch. Probably he was the one who used some kind of voodoo magic to bring the woman back to life," said Joshua, "I swear on my life that it is what I saw and I can guarantee it if you go make a test if the butler is a witch. There's also a stuffed toy that talks.!"

Lionel placed his quill on the table which he had been holding to sign the papers as he lacked in team members now, "Councilman Joshua, you should go see yourself at the clinic. I am sure Murkh will give you the necessary treatment to get rid of the thoughts on the words of you have seen dead people because what you are telling sounds ridiculous at the moment. Do you hear yourself speak?" asked the man.

The older councilman then said, "We have already had an episode of you before you even joined here to work. That you saw a white woman who was a ghost in the snow house, if someone was going to hear that you are speaking about things like this again, you would be losing your job here."

But Joshua had seen it! The white woman was the woman who haunted the snow mansion, and he had seen her walking in the corridors when he was there to complete the second exam. The nights he had spent in that mansion brought a shiver to his spine. While everyone was working on completing the task, he had hidden in the closet until the end of the time.

God only knew why the head council had picked him as one of the candidates who was passed along with the girl. They were the only survivors in the entire lot of examinees.

Joshua then bowed his head, "Please believe me. There is something very sketchy taking place in that mansion, and maybe the miss is under grave danger which she isn't aware of. They have tried to resurrect the dead. Please. Just one more inquiry over it and to be allowed to check what is going on is all I ask from you."

Councilman Lionel didn't know why he was assigned with a dimwit who spoke about ghosts. Reuben, the head councilman had gone so far as to suggest the boy to change his name so that he wouldn't be remembered as the boy who saw ghosts and made-up stories, but the boy was back on track speaking about them. He stared at the man for a long time before saying,

"Alright. I will have someone assigned with you so that you can make a check and confirm if your suspicion is true. But," paused Lionel, "If it isn't, you are going to drop the case right there, and you will be assigned with a new case. Possibly one that will not make you speak about ghosts."

"Thank you, Sir!" Joshua bowed his head in appreciation.

Now that Lionel had given his approval so that Joshua could go and investigate, the man could barely keep his excitement.

Joshua was very pleased and he couldn't wait to show the people in the mansion who had dared to tie him up and keep him there. Soon he would expose the witchery that was taking place in there.

"Take two of them who were recently added to the council," said Lionel, not wanting the main ones to be dragged into the unnecessary work, "If needed take, Christophe there."

"Thank you, Councilman Lionel," answered Joshua. Christophe was an experienced man, and he was as strict as the man who he stood in front of. The culprits would not get away that easily, and he would send them behind bars, and if it were a witch, they would be burned alive because that was the right way to do it.

"You can take your leave now," Lionel ordered to be left alone and Joshua bowed another time before stepping out of the room. He then went to find the people who he would be investigating with. The sooner, the better!

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