The Abandoned Little Castle

It was around 4pm yesterday and I was gearing myself up for a walk with the cats around the pousada, when I stepped outside the reception and spotted two females by our swimming pool, next to our chalets.

How strange, I thought. Who could they be? Friends of my brother's and sister-in-law? I called my brother just to check but his phone wouldn't answer. Surely the two women hadn't tresspassed? We've had some problems with this in the past, mostly local kids sneaking in to use our pool, but it was too cold. Did they walk through our front gate and were checking out the pousada? My sister-in-law also didn't answer her phone and the women were now out of my field of vision. It had been two weeks since the fire in the pousada; I started feeling angsty.

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