Chapter 10: Revelations

*Thelma*

I feel goosebumps begin to form down the nape of my neck at her words. What did she mean I was being hunted?

Madam Emma stands up and speed walks to another table in the corner of the room. She picks up a pipe and puts it in her mouth. She retrieves a lighter from her pocket and proceeds to light the pipe. I can hear her chanting something beneath her breath before taking a puff.

She walks back to where I am still sitting, her blue eyes looking at me as she takes a long drag of the smoke.

Is she really taking a smoke break? Now?

“Tash moesh. Tash moesh,” she chants before blowing a cloud of smoke into my face.

I wave my hand around to fend off the smoke without much success. I try to hold my breath and cough. What the hell? Suddenly I hear a ringing in my ears and something tapping insistently on the window.

Madam Emma walks over to the only small window in the room and parts the black curtains, which hang on a flimsy string nailed to the top of the window seal. I blink my ey