An Unexpected Encounter
Don't forget to read from the beginning or Part 2: When the Lights Go Out
As she came closer, I realized that it wasn't her dress that was sparkling (which was how my brain rationalized what I saw). My eyes had gone bad or I had lost my mind--because what I saw, even as she entered light of the parking lot, was a shadow: a shadow moving alone, with a sparkling outline remnant of an eclipse star.
It was time to run; my brain was nervously commanding my legs to move but nothing moved. Now was not the time to panic! I willed my body to turn and my legs to move, but again, nothing moved. I was paralyzed, unable to even blink my eyelids. The shadow girl was approaching in her slow ominous pace and she had hexed me so that I could not run. If I could have moved, my body would have been shaking.
Stop fighting.
The voice was in my head. I was sure of it. It was eerily familiar and instead of the comfort a familiar voice should bring, it only made me more afraid. I did the opposite; there was no way I was going to stand there gaping like an idiot while this thing crept closer to me.
I said stop fighting.
She was almost to me and I saw that reason behind the familiarity in the voice. Both the voice and her strangely shadowed face, belonged to me.
