Fog had a way of magnifying eerie happenings.
But its cloudy and cold outlook belied what had occurred in the grand mansion, whose grayish walls blended with the ghostly apparel of fog's stillness.
The fluterring of a nearby curtain caught Justin's eye. Few minutes ago, he would have shuddered in response to the slight breeze emerging from the windows.
In sobriety he strolled to the center of the large living room. His footsteps -a shallow, noiseless movement on the marble floor- rang peals of bewilderment as he wasn't used to them being so silent.
He stopped in his tracks, staring in awe mingled with anger at the sight he beheld.
Lying lifeless at his feet was a body bathed in a pool of blood.
He knew those eyes, now thrown back in their sockets;
the almond shaped lips, the mole on the left cheek, -like the back of his hand,
he knew.
A racket at the door brought him out of his oblivion.
Too late, he sighed.
The police bursted in all geared up in their armor, passing through him as to them he never existed anymore. He was just a poof of air.
Justin looked back at the corpse- the exact replica of him. If wishes were horses his killer wouldn't have gotten away and left of him a ghost.
At last. I didn't count though 