I blink, and she’s gone like a wisp of smoke. A heartbeat later, my bedroom door explodes inward with a thunderous crash. Helen strides in, an aura of dark power radiating from her very being. I stare, transfixed by the haunting metamorphosis she has undergone, barely recognizing the woman before me as my sister.
“What happened to you” I whisper, my voice laced with disbelief and dread as if addressing a vengeful spirit.
Helen ignores my question, her eyes burning with a sinister light. “Do you know I have dreamt of this moment a million times” She takes slow, deliberate steps towards me, each footfall reverberating through the floorboards. An ominous energy crackles around her, suffocating the very air.
I instinctively step back, putting distance between us as dread coils in my stomach
