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storm.
     
                  The thunder and lightning drew closer and closer each minute and it wasn’t long before the first drops of rain splattered against the window. As the lightning flashed across the Scottish sky, she could see the waves of the bay crashing against the shore right below her room. The loudness of the thunder that followed each flash rattled the windows and doors of her room causing her to jump.
     
                  “You are being so silly, Isobel.” She curled up in the chair and laid her head on the soft arm rest and stared out the window. Her body and mind was so tired that it didn’t take long for her to fall asleep, especially when the rain started to pour down in buckets.
     
                  It must have been hours later when a huge crash startled her awake with a jolt. The storm was still raging outside and the lightning was popping all around outside at a consistent rate. With her mind foggy with sleep, she moved out of the chair to go climb into the big bed that offered more warmth than the blanket she had drawn around her.
     
                  The power in the Tower must have gone out because the lamb she had left on was now sitting dark on the night stand. It wasn’t too much of a problem to make her way over to the bed with the bright flashes of light that lit up the room every few seconds. She was sitting on the edge of the bed when suddenly she heard voices coming from behind her. Turning her head in the direction of the voices she saw no one in her room. She immediately thought the voices had to be coming from outside her door. Maybe it was the maintenance men trying to get the electricity back on before the few guests the Tower had started to complain.
     
                  Sighing, she shifted again to get into the bed. The sheets of the bed were cold at first as she pulled up the thick bedspread. The underneath of the canopy lit up as yet another lightning flash bolted across the night sky. A roll of thunder soon followed as the rain continued to beat on the window. Closing her eyes, she listened to the rain and thunder, hoping it would lull her back to sleep. A momentary break in the storm brought silence to the room, a silence that just about hurts her ears. But, before the rain could pick up again another strange sound came from somewhere near her. This time though it wasn’t voices she hears but rather the sound of horses running.
     
                  “What the hell?” she said as she sat straight up in the bed. The room was dark without the flashes of lightning or the lamp but there was definitely the sound of horses running. The sounds only get louder as she strained her ears to try and find where the sounds were coming from, but it was too confusing. It sounded as if the horses were surrounding her in the room even though she couldn’t see a thing out of the ordinary.
     
                  Her heart started to beat wildly in her chest with the thought that it could Daniel trying to scare her before he burst in and killed her. He’s found her! She slid out of the bed and crossed the room to go look out the window.
     
                  “There’s nothing there, you fool. Your mind is playing tricks on you,” she mumbled to herself. Without warning a flash of lightning and a crash of thunder came at the same time. It almost sounded as if a bomb was set off it was so loud. The sound of the horses’ hooves were still in the room as she turned around and caught a glimpse of the lightning flashing in the mirror on the other side of the room.
     
                  She noticed that the mirror was not the same as it had been everyday she been there so far. Taking a tentative step closer, she saw that the mirror appeared to be wavering, almost like the ripples in a small pond. A few steps closer brought her directly in front of the shimmering mirror. Burst after burst of light