I saw a gleam of fire coming from the corner of my right eye and it was followed by the shrilled cry. The dance and the music were ceased, Everyone in the room were stunned; I saw the decoration of rooms and the dinner room catching fire like a burning bush, People were running in and surging here and there. I saw Tina running besides us covered in fire, Torrie and I were stunned, her face was melting like candle, the clumps of her beautiful hair were peeling off and her dress turned into ashes spreading in room due to the air caused by ceiling fan, she was shrieking due to pain and agony of the fire groping her body. Torrie withdrew from me, and jogged away, I was bewildered, and then she took an empty wok which had the some residue of gravy and ran towards the artificial fountain. She filled the wok with water and darted towards Tina. She yelled, "Tina Stop." Tina went outside the house and fell on ground, Torrie poured water on her, Torrie repeated the feat again, and somehow dozing off the fire, I grabbed a tablecloth and wrapped around Tina. The smoke oozed and her hair peeled off, her face had boiled and blackened like a meat cooked too long on a spit. She laid dead her face staring at night sky; her beauty was vanished, and turned her into a ragged doll or a scarecrow. Torrie fell on knees sobbing in front of Tina, I sat on my knees besides her consoling her, and then she clutched my shirt leaning over me sobbing uncontrollably.

The corpse was blackened like charcoal, the beautiful face was turn in despair, I was in the state of oblivion; my ears were ringing with the agonizing cry of Tina. I heard another thud of footsteps, and now I looked over my shoulders, I saw Sable coming, her eyes burning like fire, I was astounded, and then it became normal, "OH! My mind is turning feeble." I exclaimed to myself. I motioned Torrie to unlatch me, then we got up, Sable ran towards us and questioned, "Are you both okay? I was afraid as I didn't see you both." I gave a rough smile, She motioned to take Torrie with me, Then I dispersed with her and some intuition inside me forced me to look back, I looked over my shoulder, I saw Sable sliding out handkerchief from her pocket and wiping the blood on Tina body and gently folding the hankie, tucking it inside her gown's pocket, It was weird but, I was more concerned about Torrie so I hurriedly took her. Lily came running, She was in terrible despair; then people came huddling surrounded the dead body. Torrie and I sat in the car, she couldn't stop lamenting, and I consoled her. She stopped weeping but the emotions swamped her, I flung my arms around her shoulder, gently making her head lean on my right, and cuddling her. I couched behind resting my head on car seat thinking about the afternoon.

I went to the appalled room at second floor today, before the ball and this was a heads up for me.

Today, before our lunch, I was sitting at Patio having contemplation about the Tarot Cards, and I wanna give a try to know, what is stored for me, I went silently towards second floor opening the door knob with utter silence. The room felt cold and shivery, but I was keen to know about the secret magical powers of the Tarot Cards. I sat down on seat and opened the drawer, unpacking the cards, I felt so numbness in my fingers that, I dropped the cards on table, I arranged it, and I bowed my heads on the cards as a mark of forgiveness, as I dropped the card by mistake. Then I took the cards, and began to shuffle. "Gotcha, Now please tell me, what will be held me in the future?" I told. Then I place it on table cutting in three piles, I picked a card which was a Skeleton grinning at me which symbolized death, I was taken aback to see, I then picked another card, It from another pile, and it was a warrior heavy clawed with armor riding on a white steed, but his head was a skull grinning again. On the Background the horse was on a charred lane of ashes, running towards a steppe mountain with Sun held high. I was perplexed, I thought to myself, it's not good to stay for longer time here, and then I packed the cards, keeping it in drawer, and tiptoed out the room. I didn't tell this to Torrie, as she may feel appalled before our visit to the ball.

I came back to my senses, at that time I saw the driver of Lily's car, Mr. Basham coming towards us and behind him was, Sable coming like a queen. I unwrap myself from Torrie and she unstated it; I moved to sit beside driver's seat. We reached home, Sable told us that, to remain calm and not to worry, She was very much concerned about us but the question of the Tarot Card seemed to be piercing my thoughts about the black magic, and Sable taking her hankie wiping Tina's blood came running in my mind, I tried to sleep but the dreadful face of Tina couldn't get out of my mind, when I closed my eyes, I couldn't sleep. Then I peered through the window from my bed, I saw the nimbus clouds covering the moon thus darkening the earth; I was lying in the bed glancing out of window, thinking about today's event and also the visit at the creepy second floor. I didn't know when I went into slumber.