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Abigael walked through the metal frame with the words Tumeria cemetery etched at the very top as the new years Eve cold chilled her spine and she shivered.

It was three years now since her parents left this world for the next and she could hardly remember how it happened, the fae-doctour down the street said it was due to trauma dancing in her head messing with her supernatural capabilities but the memories , she felt like they were stuck in a jar that she had no access to nor the power to open and it frustrated her Everytime she thought of it ,it was a longing feeling coupled with the pain of loosing her parents to the witches plague.

She stood before their headstones alone Julie having refused to come with her. She imagined them right down there ,in coffins , as the creature's of the soil savoured on their flesh, burying whatever secrets they had of David with them.

There was a sudden rustle of leaves behind and she turned as she pulled her wand. There was nothing in sight other than a black crow resting on a branch on top of the Mahogany tree behind her. She sighed , cemeteries always gave her the Jitters.

She placed the dafodils on her father and the Jasmine's on her mother ,she always loves them.

Abigael realised how much she missed them, she missed her mother's scolding s about boys and her father's serious talks, something she thought she had long forgotten.

There was a noise behind her again only this time it sounded closer ,she heard it again and looked at the direction with her wand on hand.

She heard some words and she murmerd 'astemira lunarius' and her wand instantly lit up.

A stone suddenly flew in her direction but missed ,then another and it her head ,she fell down with a thud and her head screeched not only of pain but of torment too ,like her brains were on fire and she struggled to keep her eyes awake but they couldn't, they were tired and dying out , so she confirmed and closed her eyes.

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Loraine looked at her watch, it was three hours to the new year. She sighed , Abigael was late again, but could she really blame her?her parents had died on this very day three years ago and before the fae-doctour had offered some counseling, she had lost it ,saying there was a mystery to it ,that there was blood not Belonging to either of the deceased , of an animal used to conjure a death spell. She had gone crazy accusing the elders of conspiring to hide the killers of her parents.

After all that , her brother David so no use to being a supernatural creature but loosing your loved ones to a supernatural plague, so he ran away from his dark initiation ritual and disobeyed the elders command to come back ,so they cursed the poor kid never to set foot in Tumarh for the rest of his life ,and he went never turning back to oppose for he felt like he had nothing to loose after such a loss.

His younger sister Julie cried for months and even her entry back to school was chaotic for she wanted to be with her brother.

The Marinuel family always had a tragic lives, even their grandparents were cursed to death for an alleged conspiration against the elders.

Just then Thomas walked into the house and looked at her wife staring into the abyss and in the kitchen. He walked over to her and hugged her as he placed a kiss on her left cheek.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"Abigael isn't back "

He stepped back to look at her.

"Back? Back from where?"

"The cemetery" she answered.

"Honey I thought we discussed no letting her out after hours."

"I know but ....... Today is when she lost her parents." She said holding his hand.

They stared at each other for a while.

"Julie ?"he asked .

"Upstairs."

Thomas brushed his brow ,he had reluctantly taken in three kids due to his insistent wife.

He had seen this coming and warned Lorraine but she wanted kids badly ,since she was barren.

"Hey don't worry, she'll be back before you know it" she told "how was the meeting with the elders?"

"Hectic, they say the humans are snooping way too close to the boundaries and the last lunar imbalance brought a human in."

"Lunar imbalance?"

"Yeah you know, when we phase during the full moon,there is so much power it rips a hole in the boundaries."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"So what did they do with the human?"

"They erased his memory and sent him back"

"That sounds stressful."

"Are you kidding me?….....… hey I'll go change." He said going up the stairs.

"Sure but dinner is in thirty."

"Ok."

Thomas went upstairs and when he was about to pass Julie's room ,he thought otherwise and knocked, there was no response.

"Julie it's me ,Thomas open the door."

No response.

He wanted to walk away but an intuition nudged him back.

"I'm coming in Julie!"

He tried turning the knob, but it was locked , he then hesitantly pulled out his wand and murmured 'astemira sesame' and the door flung open.

He looked around and all he could see was an empty spread out bed and a wide open closet. He shrieked and let go of his briefcase as he walked out.

"Loraine?" He shouted at the top of his voice.

He then walked to Abigael's room and swung his wand and the door flung open too but but there was nobody inside, his heart rate increased as he walked to the washroom and Lorraine came upstairs.

"Thomas? What's going on?"

She came to the washroom and looked at her husband's blank expression.

"She is not in the house!" He said to her heaving heavily.