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The first chapter is finally done. I hope you
all enjoy the wierdness. Please, feel free to post what you may think
is happening in the sory. Now I present to you with the first chapter
of the fanfic.

Juxapose4ever Fanfics presents:
The 17th Fanfic

Harvest Moon: Angel

Part 1

In a small remote village, there is a farm. A small farm in a beautiful
valley full of green trees, and sweet smelling flowers. In this small
village lives only a handful of people. Most of them used to live in
the city, but they are now miles away from the busy life. Even though
everyone is far from luxuries and convenience, they are all happy.

In the farm, lives a small family and some animals cared for by the
owner. The farm is relatively small, with only limited space for
growing crops and raising animals. Times are usually tough, and money
is sometimes tight. But the family is always happy and cheerful living
in there.

Early in the morning, the alarm clock bell rings waking up the young
farmer. Farms are usually kept by a man, and the wife cares for the
children. But in this family, the roles are reversed. The farmer in
this tale is a young lady, and her name is Lillith. As she slams her
hands on the alarm clock to silence it, she stands up to greet the
early Summer morning. The first thing she does every morning is glance
at her mirror, and takes a good look at herself.

In the mirror, she takes a look into her light violet eyes. There are
bags under them which shows that she had a rough evening the night
before. She knows that the work is rough, but she still does her best
every single day despite how tired she is. After all, the farm is a
gift left behind by her late father. Lillith and her father were very
close, so she believes that doing her best in the farm will make him
happy in heaven.

She picks up a brush, and starts to comb her long brunette hair. Over
the years that she has worked, she can notice some damage from dirt and
sweat from the work she has put in, but her appearance is still
important to her. Even though she was called tomboyish ever since she
was only a child, she still is a girl.

As she combs her hair, her husband wakes up, and takes a good look at
his wife. He smiles as he watches her get ready for another day on the
job. Countless times he offered to help, but Lillith knows how clumsy
and irresponsible her husband is. Rather than work on the farm, he
takes care of their only child that sleeps on it’s own bed.

He gets up from the bed, and slowly walks toward Lillith trying to
surprise her. It doesn’t take long before she sees his medium-short
blond hair from the Mirror. She giggles, but continues to brush her
hair like if nothing is going to happen. She knows that he is coming to
embrace her, and give her a kiss good morning. But she continues to
brush her hair, and waits for it.

He quickly wraps his arms around her waist, and kisses her behind the
ear. Lillith is very ticklish, so she wriggles around as her husband
shows some affection to his wife. This is probably his best quality
that Lillith finds attractive about him. He may be an odd man, but
Lillith appreciates a man that can make her laugh early in the morning
to start her day. His young looking face, blond smooth hair, and light
amber eyes are also features that Lillith likes about him.

Lillith pushes him away playfully before telling him, “Rock,
come on, stop it! I have to get ready!”

Rock smiles as he looks deep in his wife’s eyes. She blushes a light
pink in her cheeks. They have only been married a short time, but she
still feels embarrassed when he looks at her that way. “Come
on Lillie, why do I have to stop? You know you like it when I hug you
from behind.” he reminds her.

Lillith smiles, then closes her eyes to receive her morning kiss. Rock
shows little hesitation to hold her warm rosy cheeks, and press his
lips against hers. They spend a good moment kissing in the middle of
the bedroom, they are very close, but Rock tends to get a little greedy
with is affection. Using the brush in her hand, she uses it to slap her
husband’s bare chest. Naturally, this is a sign for him to let go
already.

After releasing her, she tell him, “Okay, that’s enough
buster! I need to take a nice shower now. Put on a shirt, then wake up
Toby, and get him ready.” Rock smiles and walks over to their
child’s bed to wake him. Lillith may be a little bit bossy towards her
family, but she means well. After all, she does work every day to earn
the money with few days off every year. Rock happily follows any order
shouted by his wife without asking questions, or complaints.

Lillith heads over to the bathroom as Rock wakes up their son from his
peaceful sleep. Little Toby grunts a bit before waking up, but he
smiles cheerfully after seeing his father’s face. Toby inherited many
of his father’s traits as opposed to his mother. He has blond hair and
amber eyes just like Rock does. Toby also has a similar personality to
his father, but that only means that Lillith laughs twice as many times
while she is home.

Lillith walks into the bathroom, and takes off her night gown to take
her morning bath. The water is cold, but she needs a refreshing cool
shower to wake her up. Hot water is tough to get in the valley, but she
has been able to get used to the changes. Her shampoo and soap are
especially imported to keep her hair and skin as smooth and healthy as
possible. She then steps out of the shower, and brushes her teeth. She
knows that she needs to spend more time preparing herself, but she
doesn’t have much time to do much. After all, the animals and crops in
the farm do not wait for her to get fully prepared in the morning.

As soon as her teeth are brushed, she wraps her body with a towel, and
walks out. Rock and their son waits outside the bathroom every morning
for Lillith to get done her morning cleaning. As Lillith bursts out of
the bathroom, she stops to say to Rock, “Be sure that Toby
brushes his teeth, and clean behind his ears! Make sure that soap
doesn’t get in his eyes, and try not to play in there! Took me an hour
to clean up yesterday morning!”

Rock nods, and carries their son into the bathroom for their morning
bath. Lillith then runs over to the bedroom, and starts looking through
the drawers for some clothing. Since it’s Summer, she wears her marble
colored shirt, white pants, and white sneakers. She then ties an apron
around her waist for carrying seeds and small tools. On the dresser,
she grabs her favorite gloves that she uses so that her delicate hands
don’t get too dirty. Then she grabs a scrunchie, and ties her hair back
into a ponytail. She looks into the mirror again, and cheers lightly at
herself, she is now ready to tackle the day head on!

In the kitchen, She starts to prepare breakfast for her family. She is
not a very good cook, but she can handle simple items such as eggs and
toast. Since Rock is from a family who runs an Inn, they eat out a lot.
But Lillith doesn’t want to trouble Rock’s parents too much, so she
tries her best in the kitchen. As she is placing the food on the table,
Rock and Toby leave the bathroom shivering from the cold water. They
quickly jet over to the bedroom where they can change into some
comfortable clothing.

Lillith sits in the table, and waits for the family to finish changing.
After a few minutes, Rock comes back into the kitchen carrying Toby in
his arms. Unlike Lillith, Rock feels more comfortable wearing old
fashioned clothing, roughly from the 1970’s era. He wears a blue shirt
with golden bands on the waist and wrist. Over his shirt, he has a
sleeveless jacket, which Lillith always finds odd because it’s far too
warm for jackets. He also wears a pair of bleach white khakis, and
over-sized brown platform shoes. Around his neck is a medallion made
out of fake gold. Lillith laugh as his taste in clothing never changes.

Luckily, their son is dressed a bit more modern than his father. Even
though the white hat with blue and green criss-cross stripes is a bit
unusual, but customary for the village. He is also wearing a white
shirt with cute paw prints, and overalls with star shaped cut-outs in
the knee area. Matching light blue booties complete the set.

Everyone is seated on the table, and Lillith says grace before eating
their breakfast. This is usually the time where Lillith and Rock spend
time talking about the daily activities of the day before. What they
did, what has their son been doing, what can they do to better the
farm, and how can they better raise their son. Toby just sits and eats
his breakfast.

After their meal, Lillith runs out of the house to start her daily work
in the farm. But she stops to say, “Bye bye Rock. Bye bye
Toby. Love you! See you later this afternoon!”

“Bye mommy!” said Toby in his high pitched voice.
Toby is four years old already, so he has already learned to speak some
words. Rock does his best to teach his son, but he is not the greatest
teacher either. Sometimes he needs help from his mother at the inn to
properly teach and raise Toby. But as long as their son is happy, they
both are happy as well.

The first place Lillith hits is the barn full of animals. Of all the
places in the farm, this is the most difficult and time consuming area
to work. After the years she owned the farm, Lillith already owns two
cows, a bull, a horse, a sheep, and a goat. There is also a calf in the
hutch outside in the pasture. Lillith wants to keep it, but sadly she
has to sell it to make some extra money.

She begins by filling each bin full of fodder for the day. The cows eat
more fodder than the other animals, so they need to be fed twice a day.
As each animal is eating, Lillith takes the moment of tranquility to
brush the coats of each animal. They all make happy sounds as they are
brushed. After eating, Lillith then begins to milk the cows. One of the
cows only gives mother’s milk for the calf outside. This puts a strain
in the profits, but she’ll manage.

After the milking, she rushes over to the storage room to put the milk
in the refrigerator. In the storage room, she collects her share of the
profits left by her assistant Takakura. There isn’t a lot of money in
there, but surely enough to feed and clothe her family. She then takes
some notes for Takakura to read, and jogs back to the barn to continue
with her work.

Back in the barn, she opens the huge barn doors that lead into the
pasture. She then pushes a red button outside the barn to ring a bell
that calls all the animals outside. Even though they get fed inside,
the animals need to be let outside for some fresh grass and sunlight.
She takes advantage of the fact that the animals are outside to clean
up the barn in the inside.

Inside the barn, Lillith uses a shovel to pick up droppings left by the
animals. She is glad that she has a fertilizer maker installed into the
barn to turn the useless animals waste into something useful.
Afterwards, she steps out of the barn to collect the fertilizer bags
made by the machine. It doesn’t smell too good, but she uses it to make
better harvests.

By now, the animals are done, and she can start with something easier.
She heads over to the tool shed, and grabs her watering can so that she
can water the crops. Since it’s Summer, the crops can dry out very
easily. And if Lillith isn’t careful, the crops can die. But Lillith is
responsible enough to make sure that doesn’t happen. She first checks
the trees for any fruit, nothing ripe yet. So she moves on to the crops
in the next field over. With her watering can full of water, she
moistens the dirt at the bases of the plants. She smiles as the crops
grow healthy, and the fruit close to ripening.

Just as she is finishing watering the crops, Takakura passes by the
field looking for her. He waves his arm grabbing her attention. Lillith
then places her watering can on the ground, and jogs over to Takakura
to see what he wants. Takakura is an older man in his late 40’s. Unlike
Lillith, Takakura doesn’t pay much attention to his appearance. His jet
black hair is not combed, and his eyebrows are exaggeratedly huge. His
shirt and pants are dirt, and his black working boots are worn. He had
a back injury when he was younger, so he walks in a slouch. Despite his
appearance, he is a hard worker. He delivers Lillith’s crops and
produce to the nearest town, and builds anything that is needed in the
farm.

“Pardon me Lillith, but your chicken yard is ready.”
he said in his stern deep voice.

“Really? Wow, that was fast! Can I put my chickens out
already?” Takakura nods at Lillith. She then thanks him for
the hard work, and marches over to the chicken coop to move her hens
over to the chicken yard.

Before going inside the chicken coop, she takes a look at the yard
Takakura built for her. She nods seeing that the fences are well built,
and sturdy for years to come. She then continues inside the coop, and
checks out the chickens. Inside, she finds four of her best hens
pecking at the dirt looking around for scraps of food. Usually, Lillith
would feed them chicken feed. But since they will be in the yard eating
worms, Lillith will no longer need to feed them as long as the weather
is fair.

She grabs a hen, and carries it out to the yard. As soon as she gently
places it on the ground, she hears a loud crashing noise coming from
nearby. Curious to know what happened, she ran to the source of the
noise. Near the chicken coop, there was an old shed that was locked
away, and never used. It has now fallen apart, and crashed into the
ground by it’s own weight.

“Oh gosh, looks like this old building finally came down!”
she said. She then starts to inspect the wood pile looking for any
traces of what might have been inside. But she finds nothing in the
end. She places her hands on her hips as she says, “Well,
nobody was using this place anyway. I might as well chop up the wood,
and use it for firewood. This will heat the water, and I can have a
warm shower for a while!” Happy to see a useless building go
down, she runs to her tool shed where she looks for a something that
she can use.

In the shed, she pulls out an ax from a metal box. Since chopping down
trees in the valley is forbidden, she never had a chance to use it. Now
she feels that it’s a perfect excuse to use the ax. She places it on
her shoulder and carries it like a lumberjack towards the wreckage. She
whistles a nice tune as she imagines herself in a warm shower tomorrow
morning. But she gasps, and drops her ax as soon as she notices
something unusual. The building that came down only moments ago is now
standing again.

She runs over to check on the locked shed. She cannot find any signs
that the old building ever fell over. She tries to push the walls, but
the wood is strong enough to last many more years. She scratches her
head trying to make sense out of the shed. A moment ago, it fell over.
After she turned her back, it reconstructed itself.

“Is everything okay?” asked Takakura surprising her
from behind.

She quickly turns a round gasping out of shock. After taking a few deep
breaths, she answers, “Nothing. Everything is okay.”
But she knows for certain that the shed came crashing down a few
minutes ago. She takes another glance at the sturdy unused shed, and
then she asked Takakura, “Hey, did you hear a loud crashing
sound a few minutes ago? Like when a building collapses?”

Takakura raised his right eyebrow unsure how to answer her question. “No,
I don’t think so. Did something happen?”

Lillith paused a moment before saying, “No, it was just my
imagination I guess.”

Takakura then nods, and returns to his work seeing that everything is
fine. Lillith spends a few minutes staring at the shed before leaving
to feed the chickens. She wanted to move all the chickens outside, but
she changed her mind. She wanted the chickens to be safe in case the
shed breaks apart again.

After her work is done, she returns home to her family. After spending
some quality time, she begins to cook dinner. During dinner, she asks
Rock if he has heard anything unusual lately. But rock shakes his head
no, and everything was quiet since she left. After dinner, she goes
back to the barn to move all the animals back inside.

The next day, Lillith repeats her daily morning routine, and heads over
to the barn for her work. After dealing with all the large animals, she
grabs her watering can, and moves over to the plants for their daily
watering. But as she walks to the crops, Takakura passes by her. He
stops and tells Lillith, “Hey, wait a second! I need to tell
you that I just finished your chicken yard!”

Lillith suddenly stops. She then turns around slowly looking at
Takakura. She thought he was kidding at first, but he has a very
serious face. She looks hard at him while saying, “Takakura.
. . Didn’t you get finished with the chicken yard yesterday?”

Takakura raises an eyebrow to her question. He has no clue what she’s
talking about. So he answered, “Um, no. I just finished the
finishing touches today.”

“But you said that you were finished yesterday! I even asked if I could
put the chickens out, and you nodded!” she yelled with a
panicked tone.

“No, I don’t remember anything like that.”
Takakura’s answer stuns her. She could have sworn that Takakura told
her that the yard was already finished yesterday. Now he is telling her
that it’s finished today. He is not the type to play practical jokes,
so Lillith begins to feel that he might be going senile.

After a moment, Takakura smirks believing that he may have understood
why Lillith would ask him something so odd. He walks up to her, and
places his hand on her shoulder saying, “I get it now. Rock
put you up to this, right? After all, if the yard was completed
yesterday, there would be chickens in the yard today.”
Lillith shakes her head no, but he is not convinced. “I know
that Rock feels that I should retire, but I’m alright. I still have
plenty of years left in me, so you don’t have to worry. Okay?”

“But. . . But. . .” Before allowing her to speak,
Takakura turns around, and returns to his home which is in the farm.
Lillith just stands there staring at him. She knows for certain that he
finished yesterday, but he may just be acting odd. She then takes a
deep breath, and heads to the chicken yard for a second inspection.

At the chicken yard, she doesn’t notice any changes at all. She thought
that maybe he painted the fence, or cleaned out some crab grass. But
there is absolutely no changes at all. She places a hand on her hip,
and she scratches her head with the other in utter confusion.
Afterwards, she nods, and decides to talk to Takakura later about his
actions. Now she needs to move all the chickens outside.

She walks over to the chicken coop, and opens the door to begin moving
the hens. However, as soon as she opens the door, she sees that none of
the chickens are in the coop. She gasps and takes a quick look around,
but sees nothing. The food from yesterday is completely gone, so she
thinks that they must have left the coop recently. She knows that she
closed the door yesterday, so she has no idea how they got out. Rather
than asking questions, she begins walking around the farm calling out
the names of the hens hoping they will return if they hear her voice.

As this is happening, Rock walks out of the house taking in some fresh
Summer air. After taking a deep breath, he hears Lillith’s voice across
the pasture calling out the names of her chickens. Curious to know
what’s going on, he follows her. He creeps up behind her, and says, “Lillie,
is everything okay?”

She jumps in shock after hearing Rock’s voice so suddenly. She then
turns to face him saying, “Oh Rock, you startled me.”
Rock nods waiting for an answer to his question. Lillith then says, “It’s
the chickens! They are not in the coop! I don’t know how they escaped,
but they got out on their own!”

“Calm down. It’s going to be okay. Do you need help looking for them?”
Lillith nods, and then he joins her in the search for the missing hens.

They both check near and inside every building in the farm looking hard
for the chickens. However, no matter how hard they look, they cannot
find any trace of them. They cannot find any evidence that the chickens
had even left the coop, not even tracks left behind. After an hour,
Lillith starts to worry that they may have left the farm. So she starts
to walks out the farm to ask the locals if they have seen any stray
chickens around.

Just before she left, Rock decides to look in the coop himself. “Lillie!
Come here a second!” he called gaining her attention.

She walks back over to the coop saying, “Yes Rock? What’s
going on?” Rock points into the open door of the coop. She
walks over, and takes a look inside. In the coop, all of the chickens
are there pecking at the dirt waiting to be fed. She then hugs rock
saying, “Oh, thank you Rock, you found them! I knew I could
trust in you!”

Rock scratches his head and answers, “But I didn’t find them.
They were already here.”

“What?” asked Lillith giving Rock a worrisome face. “They
were already here? But that can’t be, they were not here an hour ago!”

“Well, they are here now.” answered Rock. Lilith then runs
into the coop to check for any cracks or openings in case they came
back in on their own. But she finds nothing. Rock worries about her,
but he smiles and gives her a kiss on the cheek. He then tells her, “Don’t
worry about it so much. As long as the chickens are back, that’s all
that matters at this point.”

Lillith looks at her smiling husband, and starts to feel more relaxed.
She nods, believing in the words spoken by him. He kisses her on the
cheek again, and returns home to check on Toby. Since the chickens are
back in the coop, Lillith begins to move them outside.

She grabs the first hen, and takes it outside into the chicken yard.
Watching the hen peck at the dirt looking for worms makes her feel good
about herself. After sighing, she goes back to the coop to get the
other hens. But as soon as she opens the door, the chickens are gone
once again.

She looks around in utter confusion. She feels that they might be
hiding somewhere in the coop, which would explain why did she think
they were missing earlier. She looks around, but she doesn’t find them,
she cannot even hear their clucking. Thinking they might have escaped
again, she walks outside to look for them. As soon as she does, she
hears them clucking.

She looks over to the chicken yard, and sees that they are all now
there. She jumps back in panic, she is sure that she only put one
chicken out. Now they are all out without any logical explanation. It’s
not possible for the chickens to escape, and enter the yard on their
own. The fence is too tall to jump.

She looks back into the coop, and finds it empty. She stands there
trying to make sense out of the odd things that has happened. First,
the shed collapses, then rebuilds itself. Now the chickens are
vanishing, and reappearing. After a while, she just pretends that those
events never happened, so she leaves the coop. But then, she finds
something else unusual. Lillith has two ducks that always swim in the
pond that she had built in the pasture. Now they have vanished, she
knows she saw them earlier while she was caring for the larger animals.

She stood there for a long minute thinking about where they might have
gone. But as she was thinking, she hears something unusual coming from
the inside of the coop. She can hear some quacking, but the thing that
worries her is the abnormal amount of quacking she is hearing. She only
owns two ducks, but she is hearing the quacks of over a dozen different
ducks coming from inside the coop.

Worried about what she may find inside, she slowly grabs onto the
handle, and opens carefully. She takes a look inside which causes her
eyes to widen, and her pupils to dilate. Inside the coop, she sees not
a dozen ducks, but over a hundred ducks fighting each other over space.
Her eye and cheek twitches as she witnesses the illogical event that
defies even the laws of physics.

She slowly closes the door, and stands still like a statue. She wants
to call for help, but she doesn’t know who to call. She doesn’t even
know where so many foul came from, but all she knows that they are in
there now.

“Is something the matter?” asked Takakura. His
sudden voice shocks her enough to scream. She quickly turns around, and
looks at him. She is breathing heavily, and there is a look on her face
that gives Takakura the impression that she has seen a ghost. “What’s
wrong? Are you feeling well?”

Lillith wants to say something, but she notices that the quacking has
completely ceased. She takes another look into the coop, and sees
nothing inside. The unusual flock of ducks has now vanished into thin
air. She turns around to look at her pond, and finds the two ducks
swimming around like nothing unusual happened.

“No, everything is okay.” she answered. She had to
say something, Takakura was looking at her as if she had lost her mind.
She never mentioned that the chickens had vanished earlier, or that the
ducks had multiplied earlier in seconds. Neither did she bring up the
falling of the shed yesterday.

“Well, if everything is fine, then I’m worrying for nothing.
But I still think you should take it easy kid.” He pats her
on the head, then returns to his house. Lillith never found out why did
Takakura leave his house in the first place, but she knows that she has
more important things to worry about. She takes another look into the
coop, but she finds nothing unusual again.

Lillith continues to do her work normally. But as she worked, she keeps
looking hard at the coop and shed seeing if anything has changed. He
also looks at the chickens and ducks, and they have not changed either.
Since nothing else has happened, she goes home after everything is
done. Rather than worry Rock about the events of the day, she doesn’t
say anything about it to him. She only hopes that nothing else odd
happens.

The next day, Lillith does her daily morning routine, and goes of to
work. She walks calmly to the barn, and opens the door to greet the
animals for the day. But after opening the door, the expression of her
face changes, and her eyes dilates once again. A moment later, she
screams. A scream so loud that even the most distant neighbors from all
around the valley wakes up from it. A loud ear piercing scream that
lasts more than 20 seconds long. After she no longer has any air in her
lungs, she slams the door shut, and presses her back against it like if
she is blocking something from coming out.

Rock rushes out of the house after hearing Lillith scream. He finds her
pressed against the door breathing heavily, and skin as pale as the
milk she drinks. He runs up to her yelling, “Lillie! Lillie!
What’s wrong!? Why did you scream!?”

Hearing her husband gives her a quick feeling of relief. She runs to
him, and crashes into his arms yelling, “Rock! Rock! I was so
scared! It’s the animals! Something happened to them!”

“Something happened? What?”

“It was so freaky! Bess the cow was walking on the walls! Laura the
other cow was walking on the ceiling! Koni the horse was walking in mid
air! Ben the bull was over 10 feet tall! Sean the sheep was only 10
inches tall! and Barbara the goat was lying dead on the floor! What’s
happening to the farm?!”

Rock can not believe what he is hearing, but Lillith is very upset
about what she saw. So he bravely walks over to the barn, and take a
look inside for himself. Lillith walks behind him cringing in fear. She
knows that the animals themselves are no threat. But something happened
to the animals, and the force that is doing it is what’s scaring her.
She fears that whatever it is, it has to do with the strange events of
the past two days.

Rock grabs the handle of the door, and opens it quickly. Lillith closes
her eyes in fear. But she opens them slowly taking a quick peek at what
is inside. In the barn, all the animals has returned to normal. All the
cows and the horse are on the ground like normal. The bull and sheep
are normal size again. And the goat is alive and healthy.

“I don’t see anything wrong with the animals.” said
Rock.

“But, but, but, but! But they were like I said only a moment
ago! You have to believe me! It was like aliens were here or something
like that!” screamed Lillith in a serious tone. Rock takes
another look at Lillith. By the look on her face, she isn’t lying. He
knows that she did see something. But he feels that she may be
exhausted, and only imagined what she saw.

Rock takes a deep breath, and tells her, “Lillie, have you
ever thought of taking a few days off of work? I think you’re pushing
yourself too hard.”

Lillith crosses her arms and pouts. “You think I’m crazy, do
you?”

“No! I would never think that! But try to remember that working in a
ranch is not as easy as it looks. I just think you’re tired.”
Lillith looks at him with a sad look in her eyes. She knows that Rock
may be right, but she doesn’t want to stop working just because she
thinks she saw something unusual. Rock then kisses her in the lips to
make her feel a bit more secure. He then says, “Lillie,
please understand that you are my wife, and I love you. I need you to
take some time off because I’m worried about you. I know how important
this farm is to you. But please, just for a few days. Okay?”

Lillith looks at her husband for a while. She then looks down, and
answers, “Okay. I’ll take some time off.”

Rock kisses her again, then says, “I’ll talk to Takakura when
he gets back from his deliveries. Why don’t you just go home, and take
a nap. We’ll talk about this when you wake up.”

Lillith nods, and returns home. After kissing her son on the forehead,
she lies in her bed, and falls asleep quickly. Takakura returns to the
farm at noon, and Rock explains to him what happened. Takakura agreed
to take over the daily chores until Lillith has shown signs of
recovery. But, is what Lillith sees only an illusion? Or is something
else happening that only she can notice?

To be continued.