The pool under the fountain had always seemed bottomless. But how could it be? Everything has a bottom. If you look up in the sky on a cloudless day it looks endless. The pool was like that. You couldn't see the bottom because there was nothing on it.
But when we got downstairs and looked down into the gently lapping water there were two things on the bottom of the pool. They were just blurry shapes, because the pool really was quite deep, but I could still tell what they were.
The smaller one was the watering can.
The other was Fred.
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Hotel Ambrose
FantasyTwo runaway children steal a baby and attempt to raise it themselves in the world's most haunted hotel. To Ben and Sophie the abandoned hotel seems like the perfect place to hide. No adult will ever find them there. Within its strange walls they ca...