āI attended a seance again last night.ā August popped up in my office, I was shuffling the tarot deck and watching the neighborās house. The one whose previous occupants were murdered by August himself.
āI wondered where you were.ā
āDid you have trouble sleeping without me watching you?ā
āYou watch me sleep?ā
āOf course, what on earth would you expect me to do all night?ā
āI-ā I turned back to the window and said a silent goodbye to sleep. āWeāre getting new neighbors.ā
āReally? Do they seem respectable?ā
āI have no idea what your criteria for respectability are.ā I held up a card, he took it from me. I watched it float in his nebulous grip.
āReversed Son of Wands, Iām not surprised, the psychic at the seance said I should be more adventurous.ā
āYou spoke to her?ā I was shocked, I didnāt think he could communicate with anyone but me.
āIām sure she was speaking to me, she said, āI can feel your presence, come out of shadows and make yourself known. You were once a great man, but something has changed that and now you seek glory again.ā Remarkable, isnāt it?ā He beamed, literally, he glowed from somewhere inside his misty body.
āHow are you glowing like that?ā
āIām not glowing,ā he said matter of factly. āIām going to go meet the new neighbors.ā And then he was gone. Iād go warn them, but, you knowā¦