Chasing Tïme

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They reach a narrow pathway. Yuri goes in first, Eesha Amadin follows keeping the shortest distance between them. The wall is covered in moss, growing in calabashes are plants hoisted on the wall.

A door appears, Yuri enters, Eesha trails in.

Jazz is being played in the background. The scent of oil and the aroma of food wafts in the air. The source of the lighting are Fairy lights hanging on beams. Moving around the crowd is Lady Teeyah, a smile on her face as she walks about talking with the customers.

She nods when she spots Yuri and Eesha. The crowd quite surprisingly are dressed as regular people. Though Eesha considered them looney for their finding this place normal.

Perhaps the food is good.

"Follow me ey" Yuri holds Eesha's hand, they move through the crowd then through a bead curtain at the opposite wall.

Intense insense smoke slaps Eesha on the face. A woman with full hair dyed red sitting behind an orb grins at the duo.

Yuri releases Eesha's hand then sets the trash bag besides other trash bags.

"Eesha, the name is Mam R. Yuri's mother."

Eesha lips widen but not in a smile.

"Here for your form mmm. Sit down and pick a card"

Ahn pick a card mmm.

There's a tug on Eesha's mind and she does as she is told. She sits on the bean bag in front of Mam R who brings out seven cards and lays them on the long stool.

"Beautiful" She says looking very intently at Eesha's scar, that causes it to twitch. Eesha looks away feeling anything but.

How could she say beautiful when the world thought of her as a freak? How could she say beautiful when this scar made her an outcast? How could she say beautiful when this scar was all she had to remember them?

"Tragedy usually creates a wonderful beautiful. You are one of that case"

"Why am I here?" Eesha did not mean to say it out loud.

"Yo' form ey" Yuri said from the door.

Did Eesha want a form?

"Pick one"

There's another tug at the back of Eesha's head and she picks the card at the very right.

She turns it to her view, the smudge paint instantly reminds her of the darkened ceiling in her Aunt's parlor.

"What do you see?"

"Spider" She says half Consciously.

Mam R collects the card from her, she then folds it into eight then squeezes it in her hand.

To Eesha it feels like the smoke in the room intensifies but it could as well as be her imagination. She closes her eyes and sucks in a breath. When she opens them back she's in the clouds, her legs folded, only smoke and ashes surrounds her.

No Orb woman, no Yuri.

There's the strong scent of bay leaf inscense. She takes in a breathe and when she breaths out black air flows from her nose. The black air takes a form, having eight legs, a big circle of a butt and a round smaller head.

This giant form solidifies, A spider appears, on its butt is rhinestones that gives the illusion of a bone, it instantly reminds Eesha of her Aunty Teeyah's snake- her form.

She struggles to move but an invisible force holds her in place. She breaths in and this time white air flows out. The spider also breathes in and out like she does. Soon the air between them is thin and clear.