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she usually did whenever her chauffeur duties
forced her out to the boonies. The hospital was actually pretty swanky and I
felt comfortable walking the halls after so many years of visiting.
    Soon Doctor Wessel joined me in the lounge and
told me what he always told me. Penelope was doing well, but continued to have
trouble distinguishing between reality and fantasy. Despite the medication she
was placed on, she suffered from delusions and repeatedly told the doctors how
she would kill herself once she was free.
    This last part always made me a little suspicious.
If Aunt Penny really wanted to be released so she could take my place, why
would she announce she planned to do exactly what kept her locked up in the
first place? Despite my suspicions, Aunt Penny was family.
    She also might have been the record holder for the
most freckles of any Davison woman. Her face was nearly tanned from all those
freckles, but her eyes appeared glassy and I could see the dark circles underneath
them. I suspected the voices were begging her to do what I was so selfishly avoiding.
    “Little Blue,” she said, hugging me to her. “Not
so little anymore.”
    The same greeting at every visit and I just nodded
at her words. Hugging her tightly, I remembered Penny the way she was before failing
to sacrifice herself. Back when she and my mom would cook big Sunday dinners
and laugh and tease each other. I had felt so happy and loved back then. Hugging
her now, I wanted to feel loved again.
    “Your mom visits me,” Penny said, walking to the
couch with my hand in hers. “Every night, she begs for me to die and join her.”
    “She visits me too.”
    Sighing, Penny caressed my cheek. “She is so cold.
As a child, I hoped we went to Heaven when we died, but I think that was a lie
our mother told us before she sacrificed herself. Maybe she didn’t know it was a
lie, but living as long as she did, Mom must have known where we went was cold
and why would Heaven be cold?”
    “I was going to do it on Thursday morning,” I whispered,
“but a guy stopped me. He stopped me Friday too. Maybe it’s a sign?”
    “What kind of sign?”
    “That I don’t need to die.”
    “No, it’s the devil tempting you from your fate.”
    Frowning, I thought about the demons which
followed me even here. I saw the twins killing each other nearby then I focused
my gaze on Penny.
    “Why would the devil tempt us? The demons are evil
and they want us to die. Why would evil fight against evil?”
    Penny frowned now, but her gaze was on the twins
who were gutting each other then throwing body parts at us. Even knowing
nothing would actually hit me, I still flinched when the bloody chunks flew at us.
Next to me on the couch, Penny flinched too.
    “I never thought about it that way,” she finally
muttered. “When I was ready to sacrifice myself, I had signs too. People who
told me how great the world was and how much promise I had and other things
that made me want to live. I just thought they were tricks, but maybe God was trying
to save me?”
    With hope swelling inside me, the demons and their
bloody games didn’t bother me so much.
    “So should I wait?” I asked.
    “After I tried and failed, your mom thought it was
a sign. She didn’t want to leave you, but then Assad killed all those people,”
Penny said then sighed. “Sweet Assad. He was tenderhearted and would never hurt
anyone. When I failed though, he was forced to become a monster.”
    “Do you think that’ll happen if I wait?”
    “Your mom thought the spreading evil would stop if
she died and she was right.”
    “But what about the signs for us to live? Do I
ignore them?”
    “I don’t know.”
    Realizing I had hoped for Penny to be the adult
and tell me what to do, I was left in the same position as when I arrived. Yet
if Penny had been given signs, my mother might have too? What if we listened to
the signs and ignored the craziness? Would the violence end and the demons fade
away if no