Two ladies sat kneeling side by side on the cold concrete.
"Take a deep one, like this". Nika inhaled trying to show Rayla. "And let it out, like this''. She blew the air out gently while keeping an eye on the young girl, she sees herself in quite a bit.
"Why specifically on the floor?" 19-year-old dragged her words, her eyes full, and a series of questions running through her head, with a hint of nervousness in her voice.
"Hmmm". Nika squirmed her brows trying to start a sentence, trying to sound like a cool senior/mentor, since this was the first time someone, was nervous and excited to be with her and possibly wanted to learn from her.
"For thousands of years now, many practitioners that practice seeing or reading have said that the best object or medium, are possibly daily mundane objects that have been in close contact with skin, maybe because lingering energies and emotions tend to be stronger, and feelings are more raw, I guess. 'If your pillow could talk what would it say? No one has seen the better of you than your favorite T-shirt, or the wedding ring that couple exchange on their wedding day, has probably been through it.'
But in some situations where things don't end well for some people, like a missing person, running away from their spouses with their lovers, or murder cases. Practitioners are made to work with what they have, in some cases, exhumation of the corpse or using of dirt from a graveyard, might happen. so it's not necessary, that we sit on the floor and touch it but we have nothing else here, but since our guy 'supposedly' lived here these grounds are going to carry some of his energy.
I hope so." She looked around the empty, seemingly never-lived apartment.
"Yeah it's creepy, it looks like nobody ever lived here''. A 19-year-old, who had a very sheltered and comfortable life was spooked for the first time by something like this.
"You know what?"
"What?"
"We can do it on the toilet seat since emotions are rawer there". Nika lowered her voice as got to her last sentence.
"ewww"...
Both chuckled.
"On a more serious note, I know it's overwhelming and sometimes it's very easy to get carried away, but I'm here and I will talk you through it, just do as I say and you'll be okay. okay?"
"Should we start?"
"Immm".. Bright-eyed Rayla nodded, still a bit of nervousness in her deminure.
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Chump walked back at forth in the hallway, bored out of his mind. "You think they're calling spirits in there or something", in his thoughts trying to lighten the mood and loosen the already tense environment, but two people who seemed to take their job seriously blatantly ignored him.
"Tcch" he walked from door to door, looking around at the walls, at the ceiling of this old building, for somebody that went to tech school and has no interest in interior and would live in the closet, it doesn't bother him at all that the residential complex that supposedly housed families, has no intention of renovating or refurbishing the crumbling walls to bad light fixtures, because sometimes people do live in places like this considering the demographic.
Accept for the CCTV camera that was put in a weird place and its model.
He knew his gadgets. New in the market, or most expensive. This one is both.
There's nothing wrong with footage cameras in the residential buildings, it's for the safety of families after all, even if the one seems quite out of budget for the building. All four of them, in an empty hallway. But why is it that all of them are facing in the same direction? Direction towards this cursed room.
"Mother fu---" Chump bolted.
"We have to get them". he almost stammered.
''Leave us alone''. Anthony who is serious about guarding his boss's little sister, who is probably in a vulnerable state at the moment. And also not very much trusting this man who he believes has perverted tendencies.
"Anthony I don't have time for this right now, you don't understand." Chump gestured both of his hands near his face, indicating his thoughts of this big man of having zero situational awareness, and probably no intellect, except for his strength.
"What is happening?" Ella put her face in front of her brother and intervened.
"Look at the fucking cameras all of them are pointed towards this fucking door".
"Oh my god Anthony"
"Yes, mam".
Not being able to open the doors with his hands, Anthony pushed the door with his body.
"Holy shit"
"Oh my god".
Nika was floating in mid-air almost touching the ceiling.
"Chump" the two siblings rushed to pull her down as it would take at least two people.
"Miss Ramsey," Anthony called out to the girl, who was still sitting on the ground, her eyes wide open but the black of them gone. "Okay," he said, gently laying her on the floor.
"Fuck! I can't reach her".
"Of course, you can't''. Ella retorted almost with a mocking tone at her brother.
"Anthony!!!!"
"Shit! Here hold her, someone try waking her up". Anthony was distressed as he couldn't wake Rayla up.
"We can't only she can". Nika told the other two, as she was still trying to grab Nika's body. "Toni! You have to do it".
"Okay, here hold her, I can't close her eyes, so I don't want to put her head ground". Anthony feeling responsible for the girl, and also not wanting to get fired.
"I got it". Chump volunteered
"You better, not try anything".
"Anthony, shut the fuck up! What the hell you take me for?" Chump retaliated.
"Okay here we go, put her down". Ella made Anthony put Nika on the floor". "Nika". She gently tapped her on the face. "She won't wake up." She looked to the other two. "I need some water."
"From where? There's not a drop in any of these taps". Chump already annoyed, reminded his sister.
"Shit!"
"Wait, it started raining. Chump." Ella pointed toward the huge sliding glass doors.
"How exactly." Chump motioned his body and arms around to show his sister that they were out of options.
"My fucking god. Here used this". Nika threw her scarf at her brother.
Chump soaked the cloth out in the rain, he squeezed the little water he collected on Nika's face.
Nika gasped for air as she woke up. Her eyes suddenly opened widely.
"Conjurer! We have to leave." She stammered a few words.
"Okay. Can you sit up?" Ella helped Nika sit up, supporting her back.
"We, have to leave, now". She grabbed Ella's arm, trying to warn the company of possible danger.
"I know, but you're gonna have to wake her up first. Okay?" Ella informed her
"Is she okay? Is she breathing?" Nika rubbed her mouth, worrying.
"She's alive," Chump assured the others.
"Okay". Nika turns towards Rayla, still too weak to get up, on her own. She grabbed Rayla's arm and closed her eyes. The girl whose eyes were white closed her lids.
"Okay, there's movement." Chump, who was scared, sounded a bit ecstatic.
But, Nika pulls back her arm and grabs her own chest."I can't do it here, someone or something is really powerful here, she's under a spell, this whole fucking place is enchanted, we have to get out, now." Her eyes turned red and teary.
"Okay, okay," Ella assured her and tried to calm her down.
"Toni you have to carry her.''
"on it."
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A woman with an umbrella, stood in the back of the building looking up at the window of a certain floor.
Her wavy, long hair was as black as the long dress she was wearing, the gold nose ring complemented her golden South Asian skin.
Her kohl eyes looked unamused. The tip of the fabric of her beautiful embroidered long shawl touched the wet asphalt as she walked.
She stood outside the passenger seat, of the car park nearby.
The window of a black SUV rolled down, and the guy handed her the envelope.
"We can give you a ride''. The man inside the car asked her.
"No." She answered, uninterested.
"Are you, not scared, that girl, comes from a very powerful family, they are going to look for whoever was responsible." The man question.
"I know who she is." She replied her face void of emotion, and walked off.