“I was hallucinating”, said Brown, “But I am fine now.” He knew he wasn’t. He was going to get to the root of things but if he told others, they would think that he got exposed to the radiation too which corrupted his mind. That is why he lied about his state of mind.

It was day four of the trip now. Each day a couple of mission specialists and a ship specialist were assigned to run a routine check on all the systems which included the systems of the allegedly haunted carrier. No one was ready to take up this task concerning the incidents that occurred yesterday.

Finally Linda, Michael and Edward stepped up. Edward had his own agenda of finding out what caused his real life hallucinations, Michael was not superstitious at all and Linda knew the carrier well. Although Michael wasn’t superstitious, he did have a weird fear of fire. He always felt that the fire was a living monster that would engulf him.

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