But my parents Insisted that I keep Shamu (our previous house helper) to help me. And so, began my solitary vacation.By this time Ramesh had become my...closest friend, and he was the first to notice that something was wrong with me. He kept calling me, and I kept telling him not to come to visit me. Until on the 3rd day, when he showed up on the door. Shamu opened the door and allowed him to come up to my room (on the 2nd floor).Ramesh walked up the stairs, and knocked on the door. Ramesh then. Heavy steps told me someone was heading toward her door.I snatched Mom's front door open and whirled through it, stopping the door from slamming at the last second. I eased it closed with a soft click just as I heard her bedroom door open.I hurled myself down the short access hallway that served the family quarters like a frightened gazelle. I didn't stop until I went through the locked door separating the family wing from the rest of the lodge. Only then did I allow myself to brace my heaving. By noon she was stumbling from the lack of food and sleep. She was almost ready to set up a camp right where she was when she saw the remains of a broken and rotted dock a little further downstream. ‘Great, another dead farm to deal with,’ she thought, ‘ I had better check it out in case it has something that wants to eat me as well,’ she thought. She first checked the small wood portage dock and saw it hadn’t been used in quite some time, hence it’s ruined condition. An examination of the. Then it swiped its claws out and scratched her cheek.“Hey!” she shouted, dropping the flute and drawing her dagger. She stabbed at the imp, but it dashed backwards, cackling.Shavala held her hand out in front of her, and a burst of flame extended from her fingertips to envelop the imp. It screeched as it burned, then fell to the floor, twitching as it died.Annoyed at being distracted from the main fight, Treya thrust her hands out to the front. “Stop!” she shouted, and a nearly blinding white.