Chapter Twenty-Two
I turned around to see what had Lilly looking like the bandleader on the Titanic.
What Lilly saw on the physical plane was a wild mountain lion staring at us like we might be a midnight snack, and within pouncing distance.
I hate to admit it, but my heart jumped when I saw that shining golden aura. After all these years apart, she was so close. My heart reverberated with echoes of a love from long ago. A love I foolishly abandoned.
"Open your inner eye, Lilly."
A pause. "Oh! Duh! You must be Marina? I’m Lilly, Mack’s apprentice."
In the astral plane, it was as if the moonlight coalesced on the golden aura, concentrating and intensifying until the light was almost blinding. Then it faded. In the physical plane, the mountain lion was gone. In its place stood Marina,
