spookygal:

Lily had spent the next few days in a flurry of activity. The store seemed to always be busy and she had been hard at work making sure that everyone was happy. She kept having impressions of something terrible. Every time she let her mental shields down to take a peak around the town she felt herself almost knocked on her rump. That kept her nervous and on edge.

She just knew something was not right. Then one afternoon things did not seem quite as scary.She felt lighter. The strange pressure that had been making her feel almost ill had quieted down. So at lunch time she went to enjoy a favorite spot of hers near the bust depot where the wharf could easily be seen. She was munching away happily on an egg sandwich when she saw him.

The only homeless man she could think of in town. It was said he was insane. She watched him barely being able to see him due to how bright it was and how poor her eyesight is. She thought she could smell him from here. Someone had given him gin. He was singing loudly and off key.

Then he sat next to her and Lily was very tempted to break out a Febreeze spray bottle on him.

"You see it," he said after a moment. She can't help but snort.

"See what? The bus? It only comes once a day," she says feeling suddenly very annoyed. She was not amused when he laughed at her.

"Not that, Miss King. You see what has come back. I thought it had left us," he growled. Then grabbed her hand Lily tried to pull her hand back as he leaned in to hiss something in her ear. "Take another look. Then lock your doors. We are all in grave danger."

The shock of his demand had her drop her shields. Then she saw.... something. All she knew was that she had started screaming and fell as an image burned itself in her mind. She could not say what it was. Just that her nose had started to bleed a great deal and that she found the homeless man staring at her as she gathered her senses.

"You.... You're mad," she told him. Then left quickly.

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spookygal:

Lily King led a rather dreary life. She had almost gotten out of this town but events from a year ago left her here. She had no choice. Her parents had died and her younger brother needed her. She did what she could but it never seemed to be enough. She was lucky though in that the shop managed to scrape by and she could still afford ingredients for potions to help her younger brother. After all, what he had normal doctors couldn't fix.

What did have Lily's attention today was a sense that something was wrong. She tried to fight it off all day. But she had one of those feelings she sometimes got. If her mother was alive she would try to coax Lily into just simply enjoying the feeling of darker things in the air.

That was not who Lily was though. She felt a bitter taste on her tongue and she waited for a reasonable time to close up the shop to follow her feelings. She wrapped a warm winter jacket around her skinny body and took a walk. The chilly air coming from the bay left her wanting to chatter her teeth together as she followed that feeling.

Then she stopped just outside of a building in the center of town. She took a long look at it from one angle then took a few steps to look at it from another angle. The sense of this being terribly wrong started to fill her. There was something here and for a very long time Lily found herself frozen in place.