She couldn’t sleep that night, a sense of premonition following her around all day --- something was going to happen, only she didn’t know what. When she was finished writing her letter, she walked all the way outside along the cobblestone path to place her letter to Gillian’s most recent address inside of the mailbox. Sally didn’t even KNOW if it was a letter her sister would get since she packed her bags and uprooted herself from towns faster than Sally could keep up with, but it was the same as ever, penned by HAND, the smoothly neat scrawl full of her secret thoughts.
Night had fallen and taken its reign over the sky. Evenings at the Victorian house at the end of Magnolia street were equivalent to mystical spells in their own right for Sally...ever since she was a little girl; when the sounds of day were hushed, when the crickets came to croon, when the endless glitter of stars filled the dark, only lit by the light of a full, creamy moon. She used to sit on top of the shingles of the roof and argue with Gilly over whether it was POSSIBLE for even the smallest wish to come true. That was the memory resurfacing through her mind, head tilted back and eyes on the light possessed by the moon. Sally was right about something happening, but it was going to arrive in a shape of a person from her PAST, not a catastrophic event or black cat clawing at the door.