Ghost Stories - The
Lace Curtain
Act 3
 She fell and resisted, only to be drug down the spiral staircase. She
heard screaming, recognizing it as her own - yet was aware that no one could
hear her. Her house was miles from town and she lived alone. She
knew no one, and no one knew her.
The
gates to the graveyard swung open and Kayla was pulled roughly along, her body
dragging against the harsh earth.
Next, she was scooped up and tossed,
landing with a thud directly beneath the glowing apparition.
"What do you - you want?"
Kayla managed to drag out, keenly aware that her demise was near. She
was confused as her own voice echoed from the apparition with a haunting chill,
"What do you - you want?"
The apparition hovered above her, silent
- glowing - faceless yet strangely familiar. Kayla was startled as the
wolf neared her, sniffed and then pushed her aside with his snarled muzzle - then
stopped as if someone had tossed a bucket of ice onto his back!
A whine. Cowering....slowly ambling over
to Kayla, dragging his hairy gray legs behind him to kneel beside her, as if
she were his Queen....his master. Her hands eagerly went to caress his
fur, to touch his pelt, his whiskers, his clawed paws.
Realization struck Kayla, her eyes going
to the floating apparition, the face now mirroring her own. Somewhere
in the distance a rooster crowed and she was spiraled into the bowels of her
former world filled with radiant heat, with sun-split clouds, with fields of
flowering plants and trees and with lakes holding spawning fish and whose
surface appeared as a bright sparkling mirror.
She suddenly understood everything.
Somehow, someway, she had become lost -
separated from all that she knew, from her world. And it happened on this October
night, this magical Halloween night, when myth begat a Queen and brought her
magically home.
It was the Year of the Rooster, October
31, 1313.
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