SHADOWS

Cassie continued to run through the chain of events that had led us to where we are now.

I have to admit that she did a great job, my initial suspision of Madame Zhou and all of her talk of higher powers and mumbo jumbo now felt curiously misplaced.

Cassie described her conversations with her Grandmother in St. Lucia, how it was perfectly normal for the paranormal to exisit concurrently with the normal, how it was only us in the West that have closed our minds to the darker side... the intangible and the unknown.

Helen was in general agreement, her Aunt in Ireland had opened her eyes to a childhood she had in the greater part left behind her. As a little girl she had embraced the Celtic mysticism of her beautiful Irish home ... things she had somehow forgot in her unstoppable climb to the top spot ... forgot but still retained in her deep psyche.

Cassie also spelled out her take on the bizarre break in at Amanda, Oh! how ANIMOTLOOK was a direct reference to the GOTHEX nightclub ... how the characters of Trudie Hewitt and Justin Gonzalez seemed to be becoming more commonplace the deeper she explored.

She was still unsure about the body in Bond Street ... did Trudie have a team of henchwomen modelled on herself? and the reason why Millie had been targeted by the hit and run driver ... although CCTV had been shown to Millie the next day and had revealed a blurred image of a woman that bore a striking resemblance to Trudie Hewitt.

Cassie felt sure that I was the main target due to the fact that I was directly involved with the Gonzalez family and therefore Justin, but as the gameplan widened we were now in the frame too.

The moths in my apartment? Symbols of our metamorphosis from what we were to what we are to become.

'Why not butterflies?' Questioned Millie?

'Because moths are creatures of the night, just as beautiful in their own way but have to face the shadows and the dark corners of life.'

Finally Cassie sat back and drained the remnants of her glass of champagne.

So there you have it ... she said.

What do we do now?