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herself.  Instead, she stood still attempting to absorb the moment.  It was then thought she felt something in the room with her.  The air surrounding her felt electric.  She noticed the hairs on her arms standing on end.
                Turning around she closed her eyes not wanting to face what might be there.  Her breaths came sharp and fast and she started to feel as if she were going to be sick. Heart beating near through her chest she slowly started to open her eyes.  Nothing.  There was nothing there.  She could feel as if something was standing right in front of her.  Hesitantly, she reached out her hand and felt nothing but air. 
    She shook her head, scolding herself for being so silly as she walked to the bed.    Throwing herself back into the mattress, she stared at the canopy admiring the pattern of leaves above her looking like autumn foliage.  It was strangely comforting.  She closed her eyes, taking a deep breath trying to clear her head of all that had happened in the past few days.  An overwhelming sense of sadness resonated from her chest and threatened to flow from her eyes but she shook it away.  There was something that she was missing.  An aunt arriving out of nowhere, a new place to live, surviving a wreck that decimated her parents, and now things strange and unusual happening to her.  She closed her eyes.  She needed to think about everything that was happening and try to gain control over her emotions.  It was only a few hours since she left the hospital and she was already imprisoned in a person’s house that she did not know or understand.  An aunt.  Family.  At least she had that someone, for now.
                She closed her eyes and drifted to sleep.
    ***
    Siegfried ventured downstairs to report back to Vera.  He thought about how remarkable it was that Ryleigh looked just like her father.  Siegfried had served the Simmons family for generations.  This generation however was a little surprising.  The children have come few and far in-between over the last few years and so far, Ryleigh was the only child that has been around for the past thirty years.  None of the other members of the family have reported having children.  Vera was not happy about that at all.  Their children were their greatest asset.  It was how they carried on their power.  Or, extracted it.  Vera needed Ryleigh.  She needed her very much.
    Siegfried reported back to Vera interrupting her thoughts, “Madam, she is in her room and secured.” Vera was very pleased with how things were progressing.  “Very well, you are dismissed.”  Siegfried turned and walked toward his room relieved that his day was over for the moment.  He resigned to the quietness of his room.
    Vera entered her study off the main foyer.  Her office was lavishly decorated in the most expensive décor money could buy.  It was classy and chic.  Nothing but the best.  Mahogany was the trade of the wood in the house; it was her favorite and was cleansed easily. 
    Vera contemplated her next moves.  She knew that family would start coming out of the woodwork.  Picking up the phone she dialed an all too familiar number, “Yes Fin, I have her.”  The only words that she spoke before hanging up the phone. 
    Vera didn’t understand why she felt so nervous.  She had been preparing for this moment for the past few weeks.  Since she’d received word that Tom and Adrianne had a child she knew this day would come.  Calling Finar was a necessary evil. 
    ***
    Pressing a button on the intercom, she called Siegfried back into her office once more before retiring him for the end of the evening.  “Fin is coming,” she said with a nervous laugh.  Siegfried understood what this meant.  “Yes madam, I will prepare his rooms and call in the staff.”  The staff.  The only time that she employed more than Siegfried who’d been with her since she herself was a child. 
    Siegfried knew the only thing