Chapter 5

Serena clapped her hands. “We will go round the circle in the same order as before. Let us hear the results of our experiment in creative visualization.”

Crystal spoke first. “I saw the Goddess in a sparkly, iridescent fantasy landscape. She beckoned me into a mystical grotto, where there was a deck of Tarot cards laid out. At her invitation I turned three of them face-up. The cards were the High Priestess, the Tower, and Death. I failed to penetrate their meaning, although I knew they had some deep significance.”

Then it was Zuzana’s turn. “I relived a moment from my own past, when the Goddess appeared to me many centuries ago, in medieval Carpathia. I was a beautiful young countess in those days, and I made a pact with the Goddess to stay that way forever. That was the day that I became a vampire.”