Vivian grabs your arm. She shakes her scared and shaven head. Taking a minute to compose herself as best she can; Vivian puts the mic to her neck and says the words. As the tears raced to her jaw line. "I want to kill them. I want to use the necklace. I know them all. They didn't even bother to hide their smug faces please. I'll do anything. I want this more then I've wanted anything. If you wore it while I touched it then maybe... Maybe it will know. The mic fell from her throat but her lips made the word, "Please".
You felt the air around you compress and retract like the pressure from a heart beat. Over and again the invisible compressions hit you. Like falling into a body of water you could feel each time the difference was rhythmic just like a heart. Vivian followed you as you left the room. The closer you got to the necklace the harder the compressions hit you. As you passed the mirrors in the hall it was now now not just your image but the image of every woman who wore the necklace. They looked at you with pity. You had been cursed and hated, laughed at and scorned, but this pity drove through your emotional armor like a arrow. Your felt the moist drops race down your face as you saw them. You cried not out of fear or sadness. The pity they now looked at you with set a match to a body full of gas called hate. Your hate exploded as you cursed at those in the mirror and screamed at them! When the flash of rage was over, the seething hate remained. The mouths moved in unison even your image betrayed you. They joined in the silent words. "May you suffer." Infuriated you marched down the hall to the room with Vivian beside you. A flash of green shown under the door. You opened it. Your grand mother stood in the room, you walked through her. The safe had a green glow around the seems of the door. You don't remember using the code but the door opened to meet your hand. There it sat, in a small pile of ash that once was the envelope. It pulsed to the compressions around you with a dark green glow. You felt the hunger deep inside your chest. The need, it was pulling you, like the need to draw your next breath.