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one corner of hers. He wiped the tears streaming from his eyes and glanced at Celestine, modulating his speech with soft snorts as laughter dwindled. “Remember the spirit I was talking to last night? The one you couldn’t see.”
    “Yes,” Celestine said.
    “Who?” Pru asked.
    Luke turned to Pru, “I’m talking to Celestine now.”
    “Who’s Celestine?”
    “He’s my…counselor,” Luke said, hesitant to share too much information with her.
    “I take it she is here now,” Celestine said.
    Luke nodded.
    “You need a therapist, not a counselor,” Pru said and crossed her arms over her chest.
    This three-sided conversation with two entities unaware of each other grew tiresome and humorless. He turned to Pru. “You wait.” He faced Celestine. “Why am I seeing her during the day? Usually this is possible only at night.”
    Celestine hovered silently for a while, during which Pru stared at Luke as though he was insane. She might be right, Luke thought.
    “If we consider the basics, what you see at night is the aura. What color was her aura last night?”
    Luke shook his head. “She didn’t have one.”
    “If you saw her without the aid of an aura at night, it stands to reason you will be able to see her during the day.”
    Luke asked, “You think I lost it, don’t you?” The bitterness in his voice surprised him because Celestine’s opinion of him hadn’t bothered him before.
    “For the record, I think you’re insane,” Pru said.
    Luke growled with frustration, he couldn’t carry out this conversation, not while he was torn between his sanity and lunacy. In a moment of pure desperation, he pulled on his shorts’ elastic band. “I know what will make you leave,” he said to Pru.
    Her hands shot to her mouth, her dark eyes bulged out of their sockets. “You wouldn’t.”
    Luke smirked and made as though he were about to lower his shorts.
    “Oh, gross!” She floated through the wall and out of the room.
    “Was that necessary?”
    Was that a hint of amusement in Celestine’s voice?
    Releasing the elastic band, Luke said, “You don’t see her so you missed the priceless look on her face when I…well you know.”
    Celestine hovered in the air for a short while and then asked, “How did you know she would react in this manner?”
    Even though Pru had no problem using profanity, her only deterrent in the good old days was raunchy acts. “She struck me as the shy type.”
    “Interesting.” Again that amusement.
    Luke headed to the bathroom. “Any idea what type of entity Pru is?”
    “She has a name? No, I do not know what entities exist without an aura and, or, a physical manifestation. However, I do not know everything there is in the universe.”
    Celestine hadn’t dismissed Pru’s existence as a figment of Luke’s imagination and he was grateful for that. “What about the Pit Keeper? Any ideas?”
    “We shall wait and see how these matters unfold. We might learn something that will enlighten us to Pru’s existence as well as the unexplainable possessions.”
    Meanwhile, Luke would have to settle for the self-assurance that he wasn’t losing his mind. That he wasn’t imagining his teenaged crush.
    That he wasn’t being wangled by her spirit.
    ****
    By the time Luke finished his routine at the gym, darkness had claimed the sky as its own. Stepping out of the gym, he walked casually in the direction of the cinemaplex across the street. The only movie showing at that time was a romance flick that would most probably grate on his nerves. He bought a ticket and stepped in the hall, the thick carpet muffling his steps.
    “I would’ve never pegged you a girly-mushy movies fan,” Pru said right next to him.
    Luke rolled his eyes. “For the love of God, will you just let go?”
    She opened her eyes wide. “I can’t.” She moved her hands as though wafting a scent toward her. “You have this animal magnetism about you that just draws me in.”
    Her teasing words constricted his