Subj: Designing Shadows Part Eleven
Date: 1/19/01 4:55:49 AM Central Standard Time
From: N.E. Collins

Mary Jo was quite startled by the sudden sound of those terrifying screams that issued up into this "shrine" as 'that' Suzanne had called it earlier. She was just frozen to the spot, unable to pull herself away as the strange and unfamiliar yet hauntingly familiar people went on about their business oblivious of her observation. A wild-eyed Julia Sugarbaker burst dramatically into the room with an overly conservatively dressed Charlene Stilfield. Mary Jo had never seen Charlene look so smart and proper, and contained. And this Julia, why she was a mess, and the outfit she was sporting would have embarassed a clown!

"There's a DEAD WOMAN downstairs!" Julia spoke with horror to the group.

Suzanne fell to her knees and called on Heaven for assistance. "Oh, Father God, please forgive them for they have called up spirits of the dead against Thy Holy Order!"

Julia grabbed her sister hard by the shoulder and said, "NO! Not a spirit! A DEAD woman! She JUST DIED!"

"WHO just died?" Mary Jo asked incredulously.

Julia acted as if the cat had gotten her tongue, but she managed to bring herself into focus as she pointed at the portrait of Angelique Collins and announced in a shaken voice, "HER! She's DEAD! Dead, dead on the floor!" Julia joined her sister as she fell into a sobbing heap.

Mary Jo looked to Charlene for an answer. Charlene calmly gave her report. "Apparently, the Mistress of Collinwood died of heart failure, at least, that is what the doctor said."

"WHAT are you all DOING in THIS ROOM!" Hoffman was standing at the door of her former mistress' room with a look that could have killed them all! "Get OUT of HERE! Get OUT! GET OUT!" Hoffman looked straight ahead and she seemed to see the Mary Jo in Regular Time as she made her way across the Parallel Time room and SLAMMED shut the door in her face! Mary Jo jumped back from the shock of the loud sound and then almost at once she reopened the door only to discover what she had the first time...an empty room.

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