"I'm ready" was the reply, as usual. I drove up to her house a few minutes later, to turn in and park, as I normally do, on her driveway. The front do...r on these occasions is always unlocked for me and I just walk in to find Jan waiting as planned. But as I drove up the quiet residental road which is normally empty of people and traffic, there was a small car parked right outside her house and a man was walking away from her front door to that car. He made eye contact with me and gave me a. They held a large planter that had a plant in it. They danced around the plant which they put in her room. They chanted and miraculously it grew into a five-foot plant. The plant had ivy and the branches were long and vine-like. She wasn’t sure where the men went but they left this plant inside of her room.She kept the covers up to her chin and just closed her eyes tight. The rumbling of the thunder and the howling of the wind were too much for the poor girl. Lightning struck and her whole room. Nothing prepares you for this eventuation. There are no lessons taught in school that educate you on the finer points of how to deal with the loss of a loved one and the grief that comes attached. They weaved in and out of the gravestones, each becoming bigger and more deteriorated as they exited the contemporary section of the cemetery and worked their way through the older. Headstones are rarely used nowadays, most people opt for a simple plaque with a small photograph of the deceased. And. It didn’t matter. I was a witch in their eyes. I would die either way. I shivered again and rested my head on my knees. Maybe I would luck out and get hypothermia and die in my sleep. I smiled a genuine smile. Yeah, that wouldn’t be too bad. I mean, I was already colder than I had ever been in my life. Hypothermia wouldn’t be to far off. Of course I could get phenomena and die slowly too. I didn’t like that idea, obviously. I started to hum to myself softly, rocking slowly back and forth. I.