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your wallet on you, you can touch it. Same goes with the shit you have on. Watch won’t work, of course; something about your body being cold I guess. And if your keys were on you, those too you could hold. You can touch them, but not unlock a door…not that you need to unlock a door or start your car. See how much help we’re going to be to each other?” Joel asked him why. “Because I know where your future wife is, and you’re going to help me give some payback to the bastard that murdered me.”
    “Addison? You know where…is she dead too?” Joel thought that if she was dead too, then all his problems were solved. He could just torment her for the rest of their days together. “Take me to her now.”
    “Now hold your shit there, buddy. We have to come to some agreements, you and me. Like when I help you, you’re going to go over and beyond it to help me right back. Like I said, I got me a bastard to kill too, but I want him to suffer. And you’re going to help me with that.” Joel was liking this plan more and more. The book in his hand vibrated, and he looked inside. This time the green page was written on. “What’s it say there?”
    “It says that I should avoid you at all costs or pay the price.” Joel looked at Dane. “Why would it tell me that when I didn’t ask it any questions?”
    “Because some dick that wants you to cross over gave it to you. They get some kind of brownie points when they do that. All a bunch of horse shit if you ask me. Why would someone want to leave this place when there is so much to do?” Joel told him he’d thought the same thing. “Right. Shove the thing away. Just, you know, tell it to go away. By the way, you can use that on most anyone. Just say for them to be gone and they can’t bother you no more. They can’t even bother you in a place where they died, either. Some kind of mojo stuff. I heard that you already had someone shut you out.”
    “Yeah, the man who murdered me. He was protecting what was his, I guess.” Dane nodded and smiled. Joel had to look away. His mouth looked like he’d never heard of a tooth brush, much less used one. “I was murdered there too, or so they tell me. How do I go back there if he shoved me out?”
    “Don’t go back.” Dane shrugged. “I go back to my place only ‘cause I’m looking for my dead wife. My stepdaughter is there, but I got no use for her. They’re both dead, and the sooner that stepboy of mine is too, I’ll be a content man.”
    “What about my things here? I can’t just leave them. Howard told me that they’d be auctioned off and I’d get nothing from it. What about my money?” Dane just laughed again. It was beginning to sound less and less scary to him, and that made him more afraid of himself than Dane now. “And I want to go to the board meeting. I have some things I need to see to.”
    “You do know that you’re dead, right? Some people have to reminded all the time. I had it in my head that I was fine and dandy until I seen my stepdaughter. Mess she was. Anyway, just let it go, buddy. If you do, then you’ll have a better time. You can’t spend it, and I’m here to tell you that the thing where people say you can’t take it with you is true. You can’t. So fuck it and all this shit you think you have to do. You can’t make a difference in the living world. So you might as well have fun being dead.” It made sense, but the book in his hand vibrated again. Putting it on the bed, he left the room after Dane did. But he stopped him just before they left the house together. “You shoved it away, right? That book, you shoved it away.”
    “I did. And good riddance to it too.” Dane looked back at him but said nothing. Joel had no idea what the look was, but he didn’t care for it. He nearly went back to his room and got the book, just to keep it with him in case of an emergency, but didn’t. There was fun to be had, and Dane was going to be a good teacher for now.
    As soon as they