Tori slid across the grass and bolted down a thin valley. She jumped over rumble leaving Darlene to squeeze through. Her soul shaped again, a gruesome bird with six eyes and wings replaced with long fingers. Her extended claws reached for Tori, cutting off her tail.
Tori yelled and tripped, "Fuck!"
"I know your soul is aching!" she shrunk, able to fit through the valley. Her soul turned red again, "If I find your body, I promise. I'll make good use of it!"
"Get away from me!"
The earth shook under her. It was at the wrong time, one of her visions came. A tree in the middle of a lake there was a white tree and below was a branch bigger than the tree's limbs.
And the lake turned red. Red butterflies swarmed the lake, and as they flew towards the tree, they died, falling into the water. Snakes came to the lake's bank, hissing.
The vision faded. "What was that?" The earth under her quaked. The vulture dived down and struck the soil with its beak.
Another vision came to Tori as she jumped to the side to avoid it. She saw the tree again, there was a switch, a new focus on an ocean. A body surfaced to the top. The vision faded.
Darlene screeched, the words hitting the ground like bullets. One landed next to Tori, it exploded and the rest went off, putting holes in the dirt.
Tori ran, her heart ready to give out. "Give me your fucking body!" Darlene chased, trying pluck her up with her beak.
Visions kept coming to Tori but she had no time to pay attention. Her eyes were zooming in and out. Something caught her paw. She flung forward. Laying on her side, her organs sounded in her ears.
"I can't breathe…"
She couldn't move. Darlene saw over her, "Finally…" she shifted to her human form. A vanilla skin, her hair blue styled in a shoulder length curly shag, her nose hooked and extended; it changed to a small turned up nose.
Tori heaved as she came near, her hand went through her. She gasped and clenched her soul. Darlene hopped back, "What are you?"
'Dying… again.'
Her 'father' just shot her, she had no idea where her sister was. Davea wasn't her mother, she didn't know her actual mom and she got shot.
She recalled the time, Cedrica and her went to try out for the step team. She made it but Cedrica didn't. During try outs, she slapped one of the teammates and dragged her across the gym.
She recalled moments but couldn't understand the entire thing.
Why was that important now? She was dead and about to die again. Again, a damn vision, the same tree with the branch below it. She had no idea where that was. The words, 'Get up' flashed in her mind.
Her chest was ready to split, she feared if she inhaled that would be it.
"Do you know where your body is?" Darlene growled. "Tell me!"
She wasn't paying her any mind. "Tell me so I get out of here! Chauncey needs me!"
Who?
"If I get out, I get to be queen."
And another. This had nothing to do with her. It was this woman, walking down a hallway of a school. 'I hate this ghetto ass school'
'Then go the fuck home!' somebody threw a book at her. The more she talked the more she saw. She was outside, sitting on the bleachers. 'I really like spending time with you Chauncey.' All she saw was a man with extrememly light skin for a black person, his ancestry in his hair. 'Why do you keep coming around me?'
'You're a vampire!' and it skipped again. 'I can hold the house for you. I could be your first lady. I'll do anything! Promise!'
'Really?' he smirked. 'Ok. I'll make a deal with you. Find out if my girl is cheating on me… she won't talk to me.'
Again, and Again.
She saw Darlene's hand against a back and the woman tumbled forward. She caught herself shouting the word STILL.
'Damn it! Damn it! You're supposed to die!
'Who the fuck are you!'
Again, and again.
Darlene held her bleeding nose. 'Chauncey!' she called out and a foot took her vision. 'Why the fuck you try to kill her?' he kicked her again. 'Chauncey! You told me to!'
"Are you…" she heaved again. "Fucking crazy…"
"I'm not fucking crazy!" she lifted her soul. "What do you know about what it means to be a bad bitch. I been through the streets. I'm a vampire, I've stalked, I've killed and gotten away with it. I could take you--right now, I could take you! Nobody would know!" she shook her.
"NOBODY WOULD KNOW!"
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Therapist Notes
Patient: Darlene Kiddy Horn
Darlene is severally mentally ill. Her family was recently robbed and she was kidnapped. The Horns worked for the Growden Foundation. They went on a trip to Africa. This has been in the news and Darlene states she doesn't remember living. Her father is Archie Growden who was adopted into the family.
Therapy suggest Darlene may have been abused by her step father or father. She denies that abuse occurred. She obsess over the word ugly.
She viciously attacked her previous therapist claiming to be 'representing a gang'. Her sister says her speech has changed since she was a concubine of Aleigha Biblio who was jailed and captured over three hundred people.
Police reports state that Aleigha jumped the Canada's Stake's Line that sits between part of Canada and Maine.
Darlene Horn refuses her birthname and prefers her pet name which is Experience.
Darlene is obessed with Obayifo magics coming from the realm that is visible to humans. We are not allowed to pass through it but many have been taken beyond it's boundaries.
Darlene ignores her illnesses and does not look like herself. It is assumed that Darlene may be using 'Charms' or 'Gris-Gris'.
According to her, her new body was a gift from Aleigha. There are saved pictures of her new body and previous. More speculation, Darlene is holding souls that are not hers.
She has several police reports in Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and Maine. It be presumed that Darlene is collecting but Police and Parapsychologist have yet to find which vampire king.
Aleigha Biblio has been missing since he was 24. The last known case, him and his mother were attacked at their castle in Locucts.
Thanks to an anonymous tip.