Lama looked to her husband with a frown, while Daren slowly upped himself from the seat.
“Nobody should dare open that door!” Muzin warned with a growl.
Lama marched to the door and the man attempted to stop her but failed. His obvious desire not to grant whoever was screaming his name on the other side entrance was loud and clear and Nora wished to know why. Lama yanked open the door and stood before a dark skinned, tall looking lady with rather rough edges and features.
Her long jawline made her look freaky, and her unkempt hair only added to the disturbing look she had all over her. She eyed Lama oddly, but said nothing to her while she extended her gaze into the house.
“It is you!” she said, pointing in Nora’s direction.
Her action terrified and left Nora short on words as the woman walked past Lama and barely recognized the lady that had granted her entrance.
“Laura”, Muzin called to her. ‘We don’t need any of this right now! There are important family matters which we need to discuss”.
The lady scoffed, yanked at Nora’s arm and took a good look at the tattoo stretching up her skin.
Nora parted her lips in shock. “How did you… who are… “.
Muzin stepped in to clear the air immediately. ‘This is your mother’s crazy sister, Laura”.
Laura shot him a distasteful look.
“I’m not crazy!” she yelled at him.
Muzin snickered, causing the woman to lunge at him with her fist, before pinning him to the ground in an aggressive manner. Darn raced over to try and yank her off but found her surprisingly strong, in difference to what her lanky frame might suggest.
“A little hand over here, please!” he called out to the others.
Lama raced over to assist, as did Naomi, while Nora didn’t seem to care a bit, but rather seemed occupied in mind to find out about whatever was going on. For some reason or the other, people kept showing up at her house and it was beginning to freak her out.
“I spent my entire life learning the cards, but it does not make me crazy you dumbass!” Laura yelled at Muzin. “You are the crazy one foe believing my sister is dead and that you cannot bring her back!”
Nora’s senses suddenly felt nicked and she hurried over to her bizarre looking and sounding aunt.
“Oh no!” Muzin protested whilst waving his hands. “You will not poison my daughter’s mind!”
Laura held out her hand and demanded that he stopped speaking while Laura stared blankly into Nora’s eyes.
‘What did you mean we can bring my mother back?” Nora sounded intrigued by the odd words.
Laura held the hand which bore the tarot cards in them and smiled weirdly. “My sister isn’t dead… it took her and only one with the gift to read cards like you have been chosen to, can really bring her back from the other side”.
Nora yanked her arm out from her deranged sounding aunt’s and looked to her father.
“I told you she was nuts!” Muzin mused.
Nora wasn’t sure she had taken her hand out because she didn’t believe the woman. On the contrary, she believed every single word, but the fact that she was ready to harken her belief unto something of such nature was what terrified her.
“My sister is alive!” she yelled. “She is alive and I have proof!”
Everyone stopped to stare at the woman. Laura knew she had gotten their attention and it seemed to be exactly what she wanted.
“She came to me last night”, she muttered. “In fuzzy white fumes, but I saw her face and there was the sign that the veil between this world and hers is weakened”.
Nora turned to her father. “I felt and saw the same thing too… you made me feel like I was crazy”.
Laura shot Muzin a distasteful look, before turning her attention back to the girl.
“Let’s say we believe all these things you guys are saying, then what do we do?” Naomi broke out her voice. “I mean, how do we even get or bring back her mother?”
Laura pointed at the cards in Nora’s hand.
“This?” Nora looked at the cards and held it out. “I don’t even know anything about these cards because I just got them off of EBay and more so, I’m still learning to read cards”.
Laura slapped her face with her hand gently and sighed.
“Trust me, you didn’t get that card from EBay, because it was willed down to you”, Laura replied.
Nora marched towards the book shelf on the wall where she had placed her tab to retrieve it. She toggled through the screen and searched her browser history for the page she had gotten the cards from.
“That’s odd”, she mumbled.
“What?” Daren moved closer and asked.
She held out her tab and gave it to him; there were no records of ever attaining anything online or even searching for tarot cards. She checked through her accounts to show payment receipt as well, but found her account balance as it had been before she made the payment. Naomi drew closer to observe the conundrum and sighed.
“Do you believe me now?” Laura asked with a raised brow.
Something about the woman threatened to freak Nora out, but so far she had been spot on.
“What do we do?” Nora asked.
Laura pointed at the round table in the dining room and replied, ‘You need to read the cards… I wasn’t chosen down my bloodline, but I can provide you helpful tips when reading it if you want”.
Muzin boiled hard and looked red in his face. Lama tried to calm the man down as best as she could, but he began to pace around, obviously agitated and unwelcoming of Laura in his house.
“Last time we used those cards in this house, evil things began to happen”, he mumbled in discontent.
Lama rubbed down his back and replied, “At least this way, you’d find some closure and bring this entire thing down as nothing but total hokum”.
Muzin didn’t like any bit of what they were
