Chapter 108

Emma watched the events going on around her from an aloof state, a still aloof observer. She could see Claire and Clem been crowded by friends and well-wishers, she could see little Eva sneaking away pieces of cake from the large when she thought no one was watching, she could also see Melvina discussing deeply with a lady she hadn’t seen before, she could see Derek and Maya talking outside the large room with some other guy whom she hadn’t met before; she could see all these, but wasn’t actually seeing it. Her eyes were roaming around the room, but her mind was roaming in her own room, back at her own house, where she had conversed with a witch the previous night.

When Derek had left her in the room, to go check who had been knocking on the door last night, she had first garbled up the food, since her stomach was howling at her in hunger, before sneaking out of the room, tiptoeing through the short hallway until she got to the entrance of the living room, where she could hear