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The first thing I did when I got home was to hug my sisters.
The second was to tell them about all the weirdness that had gone on and the third was to write it all down and hide it. It didn’t really make much sense when I read back over it but maybe that didn’t matter. What mattered was that it was all down and recorded. I didn’t know how much of it was real either.

I felt no victory in getting out of there and getting home because I knew to the core of me, this wasn’t over. Not by a long shot. I was suddenly afraid, for me yes, but mainly for my family.

Ever since I’d gotten home there had been a kind of internal, pulling call, almost a summons and I didn’t trust it one little bit. It felt a little bit like the one that had turned my head when I’d been dreaming? Or whatever that time but it was stronger, more forceful somehow.

Something else had happened to me while they were working me over in that freak hall. Something that I was only now becoming consciously aware of.
I knew intuition existed and women’s intuition too but my intuition, my instincts, that strange watchfulness I’d always had had been cranked right up.
What I’d assumed to be lucky breaks hadn’t been. My instincts had been pointing me in the right direction all along. I didn’t know how I’d gotten out of the guy’s apartment block and I didn’t really care but my instincts were telling me that the internal call tugging couldn’t be trusted. It was bad JuJu. I had no reason to distrust them now.

I dithered.
Mum and my little brother were out somewhere and I hoped they’d stay there, with luck out of strike range. That only left the girls and me. It probably wasn’t smart of me to come home but I’d nowhere else really to go and who was to say if all that I’d written down was real that that Ger guy wouldn’t come here looking for me anyway. I didn’t want to leave the twins in the line of fire… but there was nowhere I could relocate them to either on such short notice. I’d have to deal as best I could.

We all bedded down for the night in Amryn, my younger brother’s bungalow. This wasn’t normal behavior for us but the twins had gotten used to me being a little wacko and usually went along to placate me.