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October in Los Angeles is never TRULY cold. Even after dark on Halloween night there is barely a CHILL in the ocean & exhausted scented air. That is --- - unless one finds themselves on or near 939 Berro Drive, the old house that emits its own kind of chill any day of the year but is INTENSIFIED on the night of All Hallows Eve -- - perhaps because of the spirits who are ( FINALLY ) allowed to leave its hallowed walls...
& at approximately 5:17pm one such spirit left those walls & traveled approximately one yards length away, burdened down with a delicately covered cake tray & a MISSION.
A quick knock on the BACK DOOR ( it would be unseemly to go through the front ) & a cordial but not entirely warm smile settled plainly on unpainted lips -- this is her TRUE form. No longer the siren but the truth of her soul. Seen by this woman. This murderer.
Strange perhaps that she would bring Constance Langdon ( of all people ) a BAKED GOOD. But the cake was not for her.
Not really.
“I know you are in there Mrs. Langdon,” clipped speech, raised slightly to be heard through the glass, “I can smell your cigarettes & self loathing.”









