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**Lilia's POV **

Thighs.

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Stomach.

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Neck and then .......

Well, duh, I screamed, and I heard an echo of my scream. I whip my head to the side to see a ghost. A ghost who looked exactly like me. Shit, Ingrid was here right.

How can I be so forgetful?

"Geez you scared the shit out of me. " I say clutching on tight over my chest where my heart is. I could feel my heart pounding loudly.

"Oh please, you were the one whispering all shit ."

" It wasn't me." I whisper yell.

Sanguinem acceptatios someone whispers in a croaky voice, like as if directing it to me.

We turn to look at each other.

"Did you also hear that?" I ask, clutching my blanket tight.

"Aha." nods Ingrid while coming closer to me.

We huddle up closer. It was times like this that I wish my parents were here.

"Okay, let's be strong. Maybe we are imagining it."Ingrid suggests.

"Both of us together?" I ask, reaching for my phone.

I pick up my phone to dial my mother's number, only to realise that the phone is dead.

"Shit!" I mutter.

"Let me look for mine." Ingrid suggests, but it was nowhere to be found.

"Probably left in my room. I'll go get it" she says stepping down from the bed and the power goes off at the very exact minute.

"Shit, what now?" She says, getting back on the bed, I guess since the weight on the other side of the bed shifted.

I move closer to her, all the while clutching the blanket. It scared me, and I did not understand what to do.

"Let's just try going to sleep?" She suggests and with no better idea we lay down on the bed, close.

The whispers dry down after some time, yet it doesn't in my mind. After a restless night, I get up exhausted.

The weather outside was dull, reflecting my mood.

Dear diary,

I have no clue why I'm back here. Well, things have been so messed up lately and I'm afraid my head might explode before I even share it with anyone. This week had been a quite a crazy one. There is a strange stranger in town, also we accidently ended up in the forbidden room where a raven attacked us, We found a book which is as weird as that stranger and last night ugh - where to even start? I heard someone whisper "sanguinem acceptatio"...........

"Well, if you're done writing, we have some researching to do." Ingrid says pointing her finger towards the window which faced the barn.

"Are you out of your mind? I am going nowhere near the barn, or that stupid book for that matter."

She groaned and turns around making her way out when I hear another whisper.

"Sigalis Intransium,......... Exalis Exalis."

"Woahhh. That's crazy" I shout, looking behind Ingrid from where I suppose the voice was coming.

"Huh? Yesterday some sanguinem shit and today this? Are you kidding me?" Ingrid shouted.

The windows started banging on their own accord as soon as she shouted.

"Hello? I-Is anybody there?" I ask out loud and immediately felt stupid for doing so.

"Ingrid, please tell me this isn't one of your bloody pranks" I warned her giving her my best glare. I was really hoping it was her prank tho, if not it would just be worse.

"Are you mad? Can't you see, I was with you the whole time. I don't know who is doing this. "

" Haec sane debita reverentia. "

Some loud voice speaking a strange language fills the room. It was more like an echo reverberating through the room. The words were being repeated over like as if they were doing an ancient ritual. And the pace kept increasing.

"Lili, I feel like that voice is talking to us." says a shivering Iddy.

"What?" I ask her, hoping she wasn't also thinking what I was

A moment later it stopped. It felt like the calm before the storm. We slowly made our way downstairs to realize we were alone. Even the maids didn't come.

Iddy is still persistent that we go to the barn and find what the book was about.

"Lili c'mon we need to find out what is even going on."

"No, we need not. It will all stop at one point."

"What if it doesn't? What if it just keeps getting worse? "

"Oh Iddy, don't...."

"Lili I'm going. You want to join or not ?"

I couldn't just leave her to fend for herself so I end up joining her.

"Trust me, it's a bad idea." I tell her, hoping she changes her mind.

But she just ignores my warning and makes her way to the barn, with me right by her tail. The temperature inside the barn was significantly lower, and it was relatively dark.

My hands automatically stretch to figure things out in here. Iddy turns the lights on, and we finally see the mess inside. Papers were strewn around, books thrown aside and the furniture was broken.

It all looked so messy and the OCD inside me was surfacing. I wonder who caused this mess. Everything seemed out of place except that one dirty book we left here yesterday. That big bad book that caused all this. I hesitantly approach the book. It was still closed the same way we left it last night.

"Lili, what's all this?"

"No Idea Iddy. This place looks messy and creepy. Can we just leave!?," I beg her now, seriously considering running away.

"Oh, don't be a pussy. Now let's try opening this book."

"Can't you look at this mess? It would take us forever to even find something useful."

Just as I say that, I felt a cool breeze pass by and the papers all fly.

"Oh, lets get started the sooner the better." she says marching away to the nearest book.

I sigh, bending down and picking up a few papers that were lying at my feet. From the way the edges of the paper yellowed and were gnawed at, I could say that they were some ancient transcripts.

Written in this script was something in a language I couldn't understand .

" QUOD POTERAT OCCIDERE VOS. NON TENTANT HAEC "

(Translation: This could kill you, please do not test.)

Sigalis Intransum, Exalis Exa..
Omnas Quisa Op. rum,
alis Intransium, Exalis Exalis. Omna.. Libr..
Sigalis Intransium, E-lis Exalis.
**mnas Quisa Operum, E-a.. "

Because the corners were gnawed and yellowed, I couldn't really make out the ending of whatever that was. And to top it off, they wrote it in an unknown language.

"What is it?" Iddy asks grabbing it from my hand.

She freezes the minute she touches it. Staring at it in shock.

After sometime she slowly starts speaking

"Here, hold my hand."

I stare at her in disbelief.

"Go ahead. Do it."

"Why ??"

" We will do magic ."

"Hahahah. As if. "

"Let's try it."

"Are you out of your mind?" I ask her.

"Oh, tell me. Weren't you yearning for some adventure? Here we have it. Either way, no harm in trying."

"For all you know it could be bogus."

"Why not find out?" She questions. I really didn't want to do but some part of me, the crazy part, wanted to try.

I mean for all I know it could be a fake and then we can all go back to how things were. Couldn't we? Little did I know how wrong was I.

"But the words aren't clear."

"Here." she says handing me a paper with the same thing written, but the paper was relatively new and the font was clear. The handwriting looks eerily familiar.

"Maybe we should't be doing this ."

"Why? Scared the ghost from yesterday would come again ?"

"No. Maybe something might go wrong."

"You are being too paranoid. You watch too much of Vampire Diaries, babe. Get over it."

Maybe she was right. Maybe I was over analyzing things.

"But why holding hands.?"

"That's how they do it in the movies. Duh !"

And she says I watch too much TV.

Ugh!

We go to the table where the book was. The table was suspiciously neat. Nothing was on it except the book. We hold our hands over the table with the book placed in between. We read out whatever was written in the paper.

Sigalis Intransium, Exalis Exalis,

Omnas Quisa Operum, Sigalis Intransium, Exalis Exalis.

Omnaben Libras, Sigalis Intransium, Exalis Exalis.

Omnas Quisa Operum, Exalis Exalis.

She pressed her hands into mine, piercing my skin deep enough to cut it. I watch in agony as a single drop of my blood falls into the center of the book exactly where the spiral circles were there.

I try freeing my hands but Ingrid's grip was way too powerful and I was helpless.

I close my eyes, trying to stop myself from yelling in pain. The surrounding air changes direction, I notice my surroundings. I could feel, rather than see, that the papers on the floor fly. I open my eyes to see I was right.

I could hear laughs of pure delight in the distance, but then again they seem too close.

TANDEM, TANDEM whispered that someone now sounding at peace. Yet there was an undertone of malicious in that voice.

Before I could comprehend was what was happening, I hear a low thud beside me.

I turn around to look what was it only to see at Iddy has a malicious smile spread across her face and her eyes bloodshot red. The low thud was of the book being thrown on the floor.

What the actual fuck is happening?

AUTHORS' NOTE:

Translations :

sanguinem acceptation means blood acceptance

Tandem meaning at last.

Haec sane debita reverential Meaning respect the dead.

The spell in the end is really just some random words about a blood spell.

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~ Vaishnavi.