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proved more difficult than she imagined. The first tampon went in crooked. Immediately, Mari knew something was wrong and fished around with her fingers before finally finding the string and pulling it out. Holding up the offending object, she shook it vigorously.
     
    "You'd think you'd at least know what you're doing," she said accusingly and flung it in the trash. She grabbed a second one, ripped off the plastic wrap, and took special care to gently push it in. Feeling victorious, she grinned at Maopa, who was still squinting at the fine print on the instruction sheet.
     
    "My grandchil' needs ta get some bifocles. She don't see worth a toot. This here print gets littler and littler," Maopa said, unaware of Mari's success.
     
    "We'll remind her." The Earth Mother already felt a lot better. She grabbed the paper and tossed it in the trashcan. "Now let's go do something fun." And they did.
     
    They decided to check out the Baltimore National Aquarium and flagged down a cab. Afterward, they hired a cab to take them to another small theater in a sleazy part of the city.
     
    "You ladies sure you want to go to this place? You don't look the type to be watching this kind of stuff," the cabbie said.
     
    "Just goes to show how looks are deceiving, doesn't it?" Mari said. "Besides, we're on vacation so we've decided to live large." She gave Maopa a questioning look. "That's the right phrase isn't it?"
     
    "That be it alrighty."
     
    "Okay. It's your money."
     
    Ten minutes after the movie began, Mari and Maopa walked out of the building shaking their heads.
     
    "That were the most disgustin' thang I ever seen."
     
    "Definitely. We can mark this place off our list. I can't even imagine why anyone would come to a place like this. Yemaya ought to report the owners to the authorities for allowing such disgusting behavior on the premises."
     
    "I knowed folks gotta take a piss now and then... but ta do it in front of ladies ain't fittin'. And yah was right ta tell him so."
     
    "It's a good thing I'm not in my true form. That young man would learn a few things about talking to a spirit like that. I may just pay him a little visit later when I'm my normal self."
     
    "Sounds good ta me. I'll help."
     

 

     
CHAPTER 10
     
     
     
     
     
     
    I NTUNECAT FELT the ripple as the intruder entered his realm. Only one person had yet been able to penetrate the barrier between the light and darkness. This was not that person.
     
    He remembered the day Lilith had arrived unannounced and uninvited. The revelation that his once impregnable world was vulnerable was disconcerting, but he soon forgot about that after getting to know his new guest. Afterward, he looked forward to her visits. Not only was she mentally stimulating, but he felt an inexplicable attraction to her. Her voice, her touch, her presence brought a warmth and light to his world that he would have thought impossible.
     
    "Do you always go where you're not invited?" he asked, unable to see what he knew was there.
     
    "Would you have invited me if I hadn't come unasked?" a voice answered.
     
    "You're female." He sighed melodramatically. "Why is it I can't keep women from barging in on my space?"
     
    "Do you wish me to answer your question?"
     
    "Would the answer prevent you from coming in the future?"
     
    "No. Only satisfying my curiosity will do that."
     
    "Then by all means, show yourself. The sooner I give you what you want, the sooner you'll be gone."
     
    A luminescent white cloud appeared in the darkness, its shape shimmering slightly before becoming a transparent haziness.
     
    "Who are you?" Intunecat asked.
     
    "I am Saira, a simple Traveler."
     
    "Simple? I doubt that. You've traveled to an unusual place. Do you always intrude where you're not welcome?"
     
    "I go where I must. To be welcomed is not important."
     
    "I see. How did you manage to find your way here?"
     
    "I followed a thread from Mari. It guided me to you."
     
    "Mari told you about