Invitation to Madness by Jaden Skye

Author:Jaden Skye [Skye, Jaden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jaden Skye
Published: 2017-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Tracy felt agitated. It was clear that Tracy had to speak to Kaylna before she went home tonight. Serial killers often heated up and the time between their attacks grew closer and closer. For all Tracy knew, the next killing could come at any moment. And anyone could be the next victim.

“Please excuse me a minute,” said Tracy to Virginia, getting up from her seat. “I have to talk to some others before dinner is over. It was really great speaking with you.”

Hanna and Virginia smiled strangely as Tracy walked a few steps over and stopped behind Ashley’s chair.

“Something wrong?” asked Ashley.

“Can you move over a seat?” Tracy asked Aldon and Ashley, who had been chatting happily. “I need to talk to Kaylna now.”

A fleeting look of upset passed over Ashley’s face. “Why Kaylna? How about me? I want to talk to you. I asked first.”

“You’re talking to Aldon now,” Tracy said softly.

“Is there something wrong with that?” Ashley grimaced.

“No, of course not, Ashley,” Tracy replied. “But no one is talking to Kaylna and I have important questions to ask her.”

Ashley shrugged a moment and turned back to Aldon. “Ask Kaylna anything you want. She won’t answer anyway.”

Ashley and Aldon slipped over one seat and continued talking as Tracy sat down beside Kaylna.

“How are you this evening, Kaylna?” Tracy started.

Kaylna barely moved or showed any response all.

“I know this is terribly hard for you, Kaylna,” Tracy went on.

To Tracy’s great surprise Kaylna blinked her eyes and her long fingers started to play with the edge of her dinner plate.

“There is nothing at all difficult about anything for me,” Kaylna then murmured. “You are wrong about everything, Tracy Wrenn.”

Tracy shivered, wondering how Kaylna knew her last name. “How do you know my last name?” she asked.

Kaylna actually smiled. “Ashley told me. Ashley doesn’t let a thing go by. She’s smart, she’s sweet, and she investigates everything.”

“Does Ashley tell you everything she finds out?” Tracy was startled.

“No, not at all.” Kaylna took exception at the idea. “See, you’re wrong again, Tracy Wrenn. Wrong about everything,” she said in a sing-song voice now.

“How am I wrong, Kaylna?” Tracy felt unnerved. Kaylna spoke with such authority she created an urgency in the listener to hear more.

“Whatever you think is wrong,” Kaylna replied with certainty.

That was quite a grandiose statement, thought Tracy. Obviously, Kaylna had delusions of grandeur, assuming she knew everyone’s thoughts.

“And how exactly do you know what I’m thinking?” Tracy pressed onward, testing Kaylna’s grip on reality.

“I don’t know.” Kaylna suddenly looked at Tracy plaintively. “I don’t know how I know what people are thinking or what is going to happen tomorrow. But I do. It comes to me suddenly, like a bird falling out of the sky.”

Tracy was puzzled. “What kind of bird?”

“That doesn’t matter. At first the bird is flying,” whispered Kaylna, “then it stops in mid-flight and falls on my shoulder, telling me things.”

Tracy took a deep breath. Kaylna was obviously in the grip of disordered thinking.

“If I could explain it better, I wouldn’t be locked up in here,” Kaylna exclaimed.

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