"Are you sure this method works?" Before parting ways with the Winchester Brothers, Nick asked again, still uneasy.
"It usually does." Sam sounded distinctly less than confident as he said it.
Nick was speechless. By now, he was almost certain these two were complete rookies, just like him. Their so-called exorcism methods were all improvised, relying entirely on experience and "I reckon."
His earlier decision not to get involved had clearly been the right one.
Come to think of it, the brothers had at least had their dad to guide them before, but now they might be worse off than he was. Aunt Mary had at least left him an entire RV full of reference materials and equipment.
The equipment might have been a little outdated, and the materials needed reorganizing and translating, but at least they were reliable enough. The characteristics and weaknesses of those Wesen creatures had all been painstakingly discovered and recorded by generations of Grimms. There was no need to solve riddles.
Unlike Nick, Dahlia had clearly been in some kind of excited state after coming home. He had no idea why seeing a ghost had gotten the girl so worked up.
It took some doing and a little trickery to coax her into bed. By then, it was broad daylight outside, so Nick took a shower and headed out to the PPB.
Although he normally received a day or two of paid leave as a reward after closing a case, nobody would stop him if he wanted to come to work.
Nick pulled several case files from the state crime database, all involving disappearances that had occurred along Centennial Highway.
The older files had yet to be digitized, but he did not need all of them anyway. He only needed the cases from the past