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world.
‘I wonder what the fashion will
be in the next world,’ said Max, thinking of the weirdest outfit
she could, ‘hopefully we won’t stand out too much . . . if we find
it that is.’
‘That’s odd,’ said Daria,
tilting her head slightly, ‘I just had a vision of Gilster in my
mind.’
‘Nothing serious I hope,’ said
Max, speeding up slightly.
‘I don’t think so,’ replied
Daria, ‘no doubt we’ll find out when we get home, if it was bad I
should have picked that up.’
Max and Daria arrived back at
the house, parked the car in the driveway, removed the bags of new
clothing from the back-seat and walked in the front-door still
chatting and laughing together. Both men were in the kitchen,
talking quietly, their faces grim, when the two women entered.
‘What’s wrong?’ asked Daria,
looking at Haven’s worried face, ‘and don’t lie to me, I may not be
a telepath, but I know something has happened, I had a vision of
Gilster before.’ It was Gilster who answered.
‘We had a . . . couple of
visitors while you were away,’ he said.
‘WHAT . . . they came back,’
Daria was worried, ‘I can’t believe it, I was so sure they wouldn’t
return . . . are you both all right? What happened?’
‘We’re fine,’ said Gilster,
‘don’t panic, but you know what this means, we have to leave now,
we won’t be able to come back to the house again.’ The three
friends looked at Max, wondering how she would react, having to
leave her home for good.
‘It’s ok,’ sighed Max, as she
placed the shopping bags on the small kitchen table, ‘I understand,
I’ve been expecting it, it’s just happened a little quicker than I
thought. We can leave now if you like, I’ve already packed a bag
and we have the clothes we bought today if we need them. We can go
and stay at a hotel until we’re ready to look for the temple. But
Shibby must come with us,’ she added hurriedly, ‘I won’t go without
him.’ The two men smiled.
‘That won’t be a problem,’ said
Gilster smiling, ‘he’s very welcome, in fact he may have saved our
lives.’
Max looked stunned. ‘What . . .
how?’
‘Not now,’ said Haven, ‘we’ll
talk about it later, let’s just get going and get out of this place
before someone else comes looking.’
Twenty minutes later the car
was packed and they were ready to leave, Max had phoned a resort
about thirty miles away and made a reservation. Shibby was all
tucked up in his cat carrier ready for the ride, he had improved
greatly since Max had been doing reiki on him, even she was amazed
at how quickly he had improved. Daria said the energy had probably
been more concentrated due to the close proximity of all the energy
workers.
‘Before we leave,’ said Haven,
‘we have some—possibly--good news. We found some information which
the followers of Anubis had hidden on them, Gilster has it now;
hopefully, it may be the clue we need to help us find the temple,
that’s all I’m going to say because we need to get a move on, but I
thought it would be nice to have some good news.’
‘Thanks,’ said Max laughing,
‘but I wish you hadn’t said anything, now it’s going to drive me
crazy thinking about it until you tell me what it is.’
They all piled into Max’s
little car and headed for the resort. Shibby was sitting on Daria’s
knees in his carrier, looking out of the window, he seemed excited
about the journey and was purring loudly. Max didn’t look back once
at the house that had been her childhood home; she was moving on, a
new chapter of her life was unfolding with her new friends and one
old one, Shibby. Max was happy Shibby was coming, she needed him to
ground her and prove that what was happening was not just a weird
dream.
As she was driving she began to
think about everything that had happened in such a short period of
time. ‘I wouldn’t believe any of this if someone told me it had
happened to them,’ she thought, ‘it’s the most amazing thing and
there are