CORVUS
She felt like a duchess who had been whisked away into some kind of wonderland. Her mind was about to drift into a day dream of how she wanted to set her stuff up in her new tiny, but spacious apartment. The young lady, paced back and forth her best to figure out what she would do with the remainder of her other stuff: donate some (not all) of her books to a local library; host a grand tea party in which she would even try to sale some of her great grandmother’s rare precious gems (but then again those might be better kept for her and her siblings to auction off at the most highest price for all the siblings to retire early). The sudden sound of an alarm brought her out of her reverie. Where was it coming from? It was only the beginning of her vacation, and she usually never set an alarm when she was on a break. Well, it was not quite the holiday season, yet…she just had been granted some time off from work..and now she had moved into a new place. The beeping noise kept going on, and on, and then it stopped. But then the sound of seagulls could be heard. Either it was a few of the locals children pulling off a prank, or the place was haunted? The young lady prayed, and hoped it was not the latter. She sighed, and decided to investigate where all the noises were coming from. She paced back, and forth around her new home. Everything seemed to all check out. Nothing was out of the ordinary, well nothing except there was something that made he stop in her tracks out of nowhere. She heard the sound of someone knocking. When she dashed to check the front door. Nothing. There was no one there. Then she heard the knock again. This time it almost sounded like someone, or something was trying to kick its way into her home. The young miss felt like she was losing her mind. She decided to check throughout the house once more.
“Can she not hear us knocking?”
“Do you think that maybe she could be hard of hearing?”
“Come on now, Chad. Let’s wait. It is her first day in the house, after all.”
Her nose now felt itchy. As soon as she was about to reach toward the edge of it, she spotted a heavy wooden door somewhere along the corridor. She raised her eyebrow. That door had not been there when she first checked for the peculiar sounds.
The young laskwa was caught off guard. She ambled closer, and closer toward the strange looking door. The powerful aroma of chai was coming through from the door. Not only the splendid aromas of tea, she could smell something else, too. She could not put her finger on exactly what that other thing was though.
She carefully reached for the door knob. The door began to slowly open before she could even place her hand on the knob to twist it. When she stepped through the door, it closed itself right as she stepped through it.
A pair of an odd looking beings stood before her with mischievous grins on their faces. They waved their hands at her before kicking the back of their heels in the air.
Before she could say hi back, they both chuckled. They began playing leap frog. Then leaped into the air past her in the direction of the wooden door. It opened itself up for the silly two peeps.
They rejoiced once they were in the corridor. The young lady gasped. She could not believe the two beings were in her home. She tried to run forward, but her legs were stuck in a pile of glue.
The peeps grinned, and transformed into what now looked like their new owner. She let out a scream at such a kind of odd sight. Here she had thought living by herself would be a ton of fun. But now she had a pair of of creatures that looked exactly like her that would take her life to do only God knows what. She looked in horror as the wooden door closed with a loud creak. The last thing she spotted was the sight of her doppelgängers waving at her from the corridor.
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