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"I don't care if he is or not. I'm going to bother him either way."

After a few hours of pulling Annemarie's spirit from her body and placing it back, and instructing the girl how to do so, she sighed, unsealing the room, "I think that's enough for now. I don't want to wear you out too much. You should sleep now." She led Annemarie back upstairs to where Seth was, "We're finished for the night. I'll let you practice for a few days before we move on, but no practicing unless I'm around. Alright Annemarie?"

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She ran up and jumped on Seth. "Hi daddy, and ok I wont." She said with a smile.
"Jeez hunbun if I could breath you would have knocked the breath out of me."Seth said smiling. "Did you have fun and did you learn a lot?" He asked looking at Jaelynn.
"Yes I did daddy." She said with a twinkle in her eye.
"Then what do you say to Jaelynn?" Seth asked pointing at Jaelynn.
"Thank you auntie Jaelynn." She said as she gave Jaelynn a hug.

"I think its time to get you in bed." He said as he stood up. "Come here hunbun." He said was he knelt down.
"But I'm not tired daddy." She said with a yawn.
"Then what was that?" Seth asked jokingly.
"I was breathing." She said trying to hide her tiredness.
"Hunbun you know that I can tell when your lieing." Seth said a little disappointed.
"I know daddy." She said as she walked over to him with a pout.
"You can see Jaelynn tomorrow ok?" Seth said as he picked her up and gathered up his power.
"Ok, bye auntie Jaelynn." She said waving.

"Ill be back in a little bit Jaelynn." Seth said as he teleported to his house. "Here you go hunbun." He said as he laid her on his bed. "Ill see you in the morning." He said as he placed a kiss on her forehead
"Night daddy." She said barely able to keep her eyes open.
"Felix can you check on Annemarie every few minutes?" He asked as he shut the door to his room.
"Yes sir." Felix said.
"Thanks old man, I can always trust you. Also tomorrow I will take back control of the coven." Seth said as he was ready to teleport back to Jaelynn.
"Your welcome, and thank you sir." Felix said relieved.
"Your welcome Felix."Seth said with a chuckle and he teleported back to Jaelynn.

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Jaelynn gave her a hug back then waited for Seth's return. When he came back, she placed her hand on his shoulder, gathering up her power, "Now Fredrick is a bit of an..odd ball, so bear with me alright?" And before he could answer, they disappeared.

They had reappeared in southern Kansas, not that Seth would know that. Before them stood a run down little house. The paint was peeling and the windows were boarded up. She frowned as the stench of..god knows what, flooded her nose. "Just as I remember it."

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"Wow this is quaint." Seth said as he smelled hundreds of things. "After you." He said not wanting to go in first. Felix how is Annemarie?" He asked wondering.
"Sir you just left a few minutes ago." Felix said with a smile.
"I know old man sorry." Seth said kind of embarrassed.

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Jaelynn shook her head, "I'm not going in there. You can't pay me enough to go in there. I'll just bring him outside." She grabbed a rock, tossing it in the air a few times. "I'm going to love this." The rock levitated from her hand then shot through the wall, breaking something glass inside.

Soon after the crash, an older gentleman came out. He swung the door open, his black hair longer than Jaelynn's, almost past his hips. "Who the hell threw that!?"

"Fredrick you stinky old bastard! Get your ass out here!"

The man narrowed his eyes, a soft violet glow emitting from them, "Jaelynn Antinori! What the hell are you doing here?" He was walked over, his eyes still narrowed. Up close, the man was quite lanky, his joints sort of..bulging out. "I refuse to make any more dresses for that witch! So stop asking!"

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Seth saw the man. When he got close new smells emanated from him. Seth used all of his willpower to not plug his nose. "Hello sir I'm Seth Augustin." He said putting out his hand hoping the man wouldn't shake it.

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Jaelynn just about slapped him, but did not want to touch him, "Look, I'm not here about that, just relax. I have a question for you. Have you made any hats lately? Ones that look like Serus's?" She quickly put Seth's hand down, shaking her head, "He'll shake it, but you don't want him to. It's alright, he's used to it."

Fredrick tilted his head, "Hats? I don't think so...ah! Actually, I have. It was a bit smaller, more like a bowl hat rather than a top hat. A rose and striped ribbons adorned it. I think it was about..seven years ago?" He touched his finger to his chin, slightly insulted as Jaelynn moved Seth's hand, "Now that's just rude. So I run a body farm for the local police and smell like shit. Sue me. I make good money."

He waved his hand a bit, shaking the matter off, "Back to the hat...I remember the girl who ordered it. She was strikingly similar to someone I know...and now that you're here, I'm thinking she looked a lot like Serus. Except, when I met her, her hair was a very light brown, almost white. I can't recall what she said her name was, but she was bent on getting a hat made. She wanted it done in one night! She wouldn't leave me be until it was finished."

He held out his hand, muttering softly to himself. Suddenly, a tome appeared in his hand. Unlike vampires, a wizard was usually forced to mutter his spell aloud. A huge disadvantage. "Let me see if I grabbed a picture of it." He flipped through the pages, then stopped, showing Jaelynn and Seth the picture of the woman wearing her hat. Like he said, in this picture her hair was a very pale brown, not yet white. "Is that the hat?"

Jaelynn snatched the tome, holding it close for Seth to get a better view, "It's unmistakable. That's the hat she was wearing, right?" Something about the woman's brown hair bothered her. Then it hit her, "I think Serus had auburn hair before it lost color..."

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"That is the hat and this is Elysia." Seth said a little shocked. "Um sir? Why haven't you fixed up your house if you make a lot of money being a body farm." Seth asked feeling bad for asking. "Wait a minute she said that she was in a coma up until eight years ago that's when Serus... You know." Seth said a little upset.

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"Because it keeps everyone away, that's why. The inside is rather nice though. Very modern. Either way, Elysia? Yes I remember now. She said she didn't know why, but she felt so strange without one. She was a very odd lady. Either way, you have your information," He snatched the Tome back, "Now get off my property before the locals get wind I might be social." He turned around and stormed back inside.

Jaelynn quickly teleported them back to the study, running her hands through her pale blonde hair. "I don't think I understand what's going on Seth. Serus is dead, yet, the more we learn about this Elysia, the more likely it seems perhaps we're wrong."

She shut the door, and suddenly the room changed. They were back int he past, 8 years ago during the fight. "I remember her burning..right there," suddenly the occurrence popped up. "But..how could she have made it through?" She replayed the battle, over and over, anaylizing it carefully.

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"Could it possibly be like what happened with Layla?" He asked as the room went back to eight years ago. Seth watched what happened carefully. Trying to figure out how this could be. "Could it possibly be that Serus' spirit went into this woman while she was in the coma. Do you know what I mean?" Seth said as he sat down in the chair.

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Jaelynn thought a moment, "No...she couldn't manipulate her spirit...she couldn't astral pro..." she trailed off, rewinding to a few moments before the battle.

Jaelynn jumped through the window, her telekinesis pushing her forward across the street. She quickly began to unbury Serus using her hands and telekinesis to move the bricks. She pulled Serus from the rubble asking if she was okay.

There was no response. She was unconscious. She quickly cut her hand on a brick holding it over Serus's mouth.--

"There! I gave her some blood since she was unconscious..hoping to boost her healing. She must've noticed she had my power then as well. When she knew she was going to die, she mustve completely detatched her spirit, attching it to a random person. And since a body can only hold one spirit, she mustve goten into a coma while she was removing Elysia's spirit. She probably changed her last name to LaShalla since it ffelt right.

"Just like her hat. She wanted one because that's what feels right to her. Yet she has no memory to explain it." she suddenly felt weak as the realization hit. She looked to Seth, slightly concerned. "Seth...?"

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"So your saying that Serus' spirit and Elysia's spirit fought and that's why she was in the coma. But why doesn't she have her memories if Serus won?" Seth asked looking at Jaelynn. "Are you ok." Seth said as he got up to catch her. "What's wrong?" Seth asked as he helped her to a chair.

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Jaelynn held onto him for support as she mulled over the idea. It was possible that Elysia was Serus. But..that would mean Serus was now human again. She held her head with her free hand, trying to process it all. "Let's see..its..3am..the Midnight Carnival is open till 5am.. We have time. We have to go back there and find this Elysia." She stood on her own, waiting for Seth to teleport them, as she didn't know the exact location of the fair.

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"Ok Jaelynn." Seth said as he teleported them to the carnival. "Here it is, she works on the carousel. I'll lead the way." Seth said as he went to the ticket man and handed him forty dollars. You could see the carousel right away. "Its just right up here." Seth said weaving in and out of the few people that were there.

"Daddy where are you?" Annemarie asked kind of crying.
"I'm with Jaelynn hunbun what's wrong?" Seth asked worried.
"I can't sleep." She said sounding scared.
"I'll be home soon hunbun, ok?" Seth said sad.
"Ok daddy, be careful." Annemarie said with a weak smile.
"I will and if you need anything just call for Felix ok?" Seth said with a little smile.
"Okie daddy." Annemarie said trying to go back to sleep.

Seth and Jaelynn got to the carousel.

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Jaelynn followed along behind Seth, looking around, partly amazed as all the..details. She could already see the top of the carousel as they passed the gate. "Woooww, amazing! I can see why she'd come here. It's a comfortable environment for a vampire." As they came up to the carousel, she could see a white haired woman.

Elysia sighed as the crowds were slowly dying down. She stroked the Horse's neck, looking around to see if anyone was approaching her carousel. Suddenly, she saw Seth again, this time with a short blonde woman. Confused, she remained on her stool, wondering who that woman was.

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"She does look a lot like Serus. If this is Serus' spirit how come she doesn't have her memories. What is she? She's not totally human but she's not a vampire or a witch, so what the fuck is she?" Seth thought to himself as he slowly made his way to Elysia. "How are we gonna do this?" Seth asked Jaelynn as they made it to Elysia.