Sylvester, grandfather and Juss

Marlani.

The room was dark when I woke up, I stretched my hand to feel Juss’ body, but instead, it fell on the fabric of an empty bed. I reached out more, stirring my hand through the darkness.

I squinted my eyes, in a bid to find Juss even in the darkness. But all I could see on the chair she once sat was nothing. She was here before I went to bed, how did she suddenly disappear.

My heart suddenly felt attacked by a roar of panic. There’s been a lot of strange happenings lately, and for some reason, I happened to be at the center of it.

"What is going on?" I asked within me.

At that time, some light casted of by the rising sun was beginning to float in the room through the window. My eyes became, as it should, accustomed to the light, and I could then see; an empty room. There was still no sign of Juss or Eggust.

He did say he was coming to see me, and if he couldn’t make it, he would have sent Ezekiel to me, he wouldn’t just keep me in the dark.

“Or would he?”

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