There could be another way is the kind of optimism that Derrica knows will sound foolish.

So she doesn't say it. Her hand soothes at Abby's back, holding space for Derrica while she assembles her answer.

She knows more than most about spirits. But it's still tricky to translate that knowledge into something Abby might understand, nevermind trying to pin down an accurate guess when she knows so little about this place.

"One of them might help us, but that seems unlikely," she assesses. "So we have to search. Work our way towards the source of it, wherever it is."

Smart money says basement. Almost everything terrible lives in the basement, doesn't it?