Ezra yells at the top of his lungs and falls on his back. He looks at the skeleton and sees that it isn't moving. Yet it somehow was lightly choking him before. So I guess the young man scared himself. His back aches as he gets up and...yeah...the pain can't be that bad. If you get up easily, you either aren't hurt or are young.

Ezra realizes the skeleton hadn't moved but had just happened to fall forward. I guess it knew it was the end of the chapter which meant a jump scare was needed. He then thinks that the skeleton was trying to break free and caused the scratching sound.

He pushes the skeleton out of the way and looks into the study. Problem is that it's so dark that he can't see anything. Ezra lights a candle so that he can figure out what's in the study. Or, at least, what remains in the mysterious room.

It turns out the skeletons, yes there's a second one in the study, are Constance and Matthew. Well...that's what Ezra assumes to be the case. But there's no proof so it could just as easily be that the skeletons are from some random people.

THE CHAPTER