Helen rubbed her elbow, watching the sky darken. Her arthritis always acted up with foul weather like this, but it was also her favorite weather. Nothing could beat a stormy day curled up with her favorite book. Her cat, Kiki, meowed at her.
As Helen moved towards the door to get Kiki’s dinner, she noticed something in the corner of her eye. A wisp of shadow that, as she turned around, was gone as soon as it appeared.
A trick of the mind perhaps? Helen shook her head and kept going about her business. Maybe she was getting old, like her children said. As she set Kiki’s food down, she heard a tap on the window.
Thinking it was a robin, she moved to the window to check on it. A robin at her window this close to a storm would surely mean it couldn’t escape in time. Helen gasped and dropped the cat food can when she saw a big raven at her window, tapping again and tilting its head. At its feet lay a broken locket.
“Where…did you get this?” Helen asked aloud, reaching for the window latch. The locket was her sister’s.
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