Chapter 159: Preparing to Go

The following morning, Lisa woke up to the sound of birds. She opened her eyes and saw that the guest room was flooded with daylight from the open window. As she stretched her arms outwards, she remembered the strange events of the previous night and immediately looked across the room at Celie’s bed. She observed that her cousin was still fast asleep despite the bright light of the day and the chirping of the birds from the tree near the window.

Lisa remembered the things that Celie said to her the previous night. She wondered if it was really just a bad dream that made Celie see or feel the presence of the dark figure. The same bad dream that made her cousin walk in her sleep. Lisa knew that it was improbable for anyone from outside the house to enter the guest room after all the security guards stationed at the gate and the grounds. Lisa’s wandered to that other possibility, however, that there could be something else, some other reason why Celie would conjure v