A knock woke me from a dreamless sleep, and I was shocked wide awake. At first I was disoriented, wondering where I was, but then it all came flooding back to me and I remembered I was in St. Nicholas Catholic Church.
The knock sounded off again, and I looked in the direction of where it was coming from. I got up and walked to the window, there, I was shocked into silence when I saw Jinxabell perched comfortably and looking at me. There was a certain desperation in her eyes. It could have been a trick of my mind, but it seemed like she was silently pleading with me.
As I made to open the window, the door bust open, and father James came inside. “Move away from the window, Terobe, she is not in her right senses.”
Without explaining to me what he was even doing in my room with a pitche
