Evelyn locked the door after Mithias, placing her back upon it and taking a deep breath. She looked around her home, wondering if what had just happened was indeed real. Of course. It had to be. If not she was just plain mad. She shook her head, hand with the skeleton key in it being brought to her forehead as if to check her own temperature, before she dropped it to her side once more. She exhaled the deep breath she had taken and nodded firmly. She was exhausted, but she would go to work today. Nothing odd had happened last night. She would simply brush off the girls’ questions if they had any, or ignore them if they simply gossiped. She nodded to herself again, tapping the key in her opposite palm as she walked around her home. She set the key down on a counter top and began cleaning up after Mithias, putting wash together and setting it aside, emptying the tub basin and whatnot. She was thoroughly exhausted now, and yet she still had work for the day. And she couldn’t call off sick. There would be talk. She went through the trouble of drawing her own bath this time, cleaning herself and rubbing powder under her eyes to appear less deadened from the night of lost sleep. Though of course, her eyes sparkled with new revelation and looked more alive than they had in a long time.

She put on a simple cream dress with a brown bodice that laced up in the back and had gold buttons in the front. She twisted her hair up after 100 brushes, and put on her favorite off white pearls before stepping out of her house. Her brown heeled boots clicked on her stairs when a gravelly voice spoke out from the side of her home. [b]”I saw you take that thing in your house last night.”[/b] Evelyn practically jumped out of her skin, looking positively frightened and flushed, a hand fluttering to her chest. She tried to calm herself and her eyes fell on the town drunk, an old grey haired man who smelled of urine and booze and wore holey clothing. She simply huffed with a frown, turning on her heel and heading in the opposite direction. Well, that certainly wasn’t how she planned the start of her day going…