They hum the strange song again. Xaxu moves to six and Suke to one. The humming stops and Suke enters the empty space above my head. She does a tribal dance at every inch of it then stops abruptly. The humming starts again. Xaxu is at five and Raea lands on seven. When the humming stops, she too enters the empty space on my right and does the same dance. What is hopefully the final round of humming lands Xaxu on four. Now she enters the empty space and does her thing. With that done, the three cones light up with a shen each. The humming starts up again. Six witches remain. Now they switch things up a bit so I kick three more numbers off the clock for a proper fit. The line up is now Qira at one, Fejj at two, then Jarka, Mira, the strange woman and my shadow closing out as six.
Now the witches hum a completely new song, another one I still don't know. But they continue to move anticlockwise around the circle as they hum, eleven times to be exact. Then they return to the first song and ramp it up three notches. This pushes Qira at four o'clock and Jarka at six. She pierces the shen and enters the inverted triangle on my right. Again it happens and Qira stops at two. She pierces the other shen and enters the one on my left. They switch up again to Fejj at one, Mira at two, the strange woman, my shadow, and two notches this time. Another new song gets introduced. What is this? An album in the making? The humming ends and my shadow is at two o'clock. Fejj pierces the shen and enters the inverted triangle at my feet from position three. Now they hum all three songs together, a brilliantly haunting selection, and the witches melt from solids into mists. Mira's indigo mist becomes the original triangle. Two more notches places the strange woman as the largest inverted triangle. But there's an eerie lull before she pushes on. It's almost as though she wants to tell me something, or maybe even do me something. I can't be sure. All I know is that my shadow is finally alone. So I wait for whatever comes next.
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NINE TIME MACHINES: Do you want to undo your entire life on planet earth?
FantasyThere is a war coming! In it, Lilith and the impostor God must battle for all human minds on earth. But one girl can stand in the gap for all humanity. However, to prove worthy for this feat, Mary must begin shadow work to take the mark upon herself...
