• The Lazarus Dynamic •

When they got outside they ran to just beyond the frost that encircled the burning house like a transparent wedding ring.

A few moments later they were all carefully watching the fire when suddenly the ground near them began to rumble and move like a small earthquake.

It was coming from the butler’s grave.

“What the hell!” Greer said.

Then the ground opened up and out popped the butler like a giant mole covered with dirt and there were bits and pieces of a suitcase lying around him.

“Where… Am… I?” rumbled his deep old voice.

He was trying to shake the dirt off his arms and shoulders. He was very confused. He had never been buried before.

“You just came back from the dead,” Cameron said as he turned back to watch the house burning down.