Visitor

[poliphilo]

"Turn over slowly," says Ailz. "And tell me what you see."

We're in bed. We've been in bed ten minutes or so. It's just past midnight.

I turn over. "Where?" I ask.

"About level with my shoulder."

I can't see anything and I say so. "What am I supposed to see?"

"There's a shadow. I was looking at the wall and suddenly the darkness got darker. And there's movement inside it."

"You think we've got a visitor?"

"Yes. You really can't see it?"

"No. But then I never can."

Bah; I find it really frustrating. I'm the one who's interested in ghosts- the true believer- but I never see a thing.

Shortly after she'd drawn my attention to it, the shape faded. I don't think this house is haunted; we don't have any permanent, unlisted residents; but we do get these visitors from time to time. Ailz never sees enough detail to identify them, but there was no feeling of menace or hostility- there never is (we have protection in place)- so I guess it was a friend.

I'd love to know who...

Comments

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I can't help thinking that the world you inhabit seems so enchanted and somehow peopled with things and elements that I will never get even close to in my life. And though I have a hard time believing that a ghost would appear in MY bedroom, it somehow seems perfectly reasonable and credible that one should appear in you and Ailz's. My own life is far to entzaubert (is there an English word for that? "Disenchanted" has all these connotations of disappointment etc...) to allow for such appearences.

[cosmolinguist]

I think I agree with you -- I certainly don't know of anything I've done to encourage inexplicable things to happen around me, but I'm quite all right with that.

My brother once claimed he saw a "shadow person" next to the barn when he was coming home very late one night. It kept him from going down by the barns for a few days, I think. :-) Supernatural apparitions aren't all fun and games, I guess.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I believe the universe adapts itself to our beliefs.

When I was an active Wiccan I found weird, odd, synchronicitous things were happening all the time. Since I stepped aside from Wicca such things seem to happen much less frequently.