Alexa gulped, making nervous eye contact with the figure above her as she was lead away. "You mean, you don't see..." Alexa closed her eyes tightly and shook her head. [i] I must be hallucinating,[/i] she thought, [i]that's common for people who have suffered trauma right? I think this qualifies as a traumatic experience... maybe it will just go away.[/i] 

However, he didn't go away, in fact the male followed them back to her house. Alexa didn't say anything, her eyes either clamped shut or staring off into space. [i] Could I be hallucinating the light he's giving off as well? Does Kari not see the shadows being given off, or maybe I'm the only one paying attention.[/i] Once they were all in her room the girl flipped the switch, finding that the light he gave off was enough to make her friends face and few objects in the darkness visible. "Kari? Tell the truth and I'm not fooling around. Can you see anything, any light source at all or is it just dark?" The moon was covered by the clouds. "Answer my question Kari, this is important."

A clawing could be heard at the door, and Alexa knew it was Tommy. He would be able to tell her if this was real. Hurriedly she flipped the switch, her cat hopping up on her bed and looking over at the corner where Astral was floating. [i]I'm not crazy, he can see him...[/i] The cat soon approached the male fearlessly, sitting on his rear legs and pawing at his feet in curiosity...much in the way that he had when she dangled the rock she found in the garden over him.

"The rock," she exclaimed, pulling it out of her shirt and holding it up to compare it to astral. "It's the rock!"

Kari must have really thought Alexa had lost it now.