Just checked in tonight with AJ, the lady (well ghost, but so newly a ghost she didn't even know she was dead yet) who started all the wyrd last night hasn't (yet) passed her way looking to move on. But she said she'd keep an eye out for her and would recognize her. It's convenient, as one who deals with the complicated cases to know a mother shepherd medium who's the lighthouse that lost/confused "newly' dead souls go to. (I strongly set protections against unincarnated spirits entering anywhere I intend to sleep,  but especially my own living space, for reasons that should be obvious givem the entities I deal with who have bad intenrions.  So I cannot function for newly dead that way for them to come find me for help....only when I find them in my wanderings can I help them. So I like knowing there's someone for them to find to help them.) Not to mention she's a darling. Been through a helluva lot, you have no idea, but she's darling! A favorite of mine!

So anyway, went to Michelangelo's for a con panna then got the text that Short Stack was open so went for late night French toast (theirs is my favorite other than my own) after going to the CTM (Children's Theatre of Madison) performance of Matilda the Musical (love this musical and they did a spectacular job -- genuinely surprised me how great a job they did with it. And Abby, who was in my middle school girl Scouts troop and then was friends in high school was Miss Honey.)  So that was all normal enough.Then picked up my dog from my parents and was going to stop by work even though it was about 11:30pm to pick something up. And that's when things went weird.....

Was just around the corner from work when out of nowhere I had a newly dead spirit rush me. And she was VERY recognizable! A black lady with blonde dyed hair, in a wheelchair, with her left leg wrapped in bandages and her right leg missing beneath the knee. And she was freaking her shit out. She came out of nowhere from the left, wheeled straight at me calling to me waving her arms panicky at me telling me to go back, go home, not to stay near here, "HE" was nearby and it wasn't safe. She then wheeled right through the hood of my car, into the parked cars to my right and I slowed down to deal with her and that freaked her out even MORE so she turned herself around and came BACK at me waving me in a panic to go home and hide, HE was getting clsoer.... So I said, "ALRIGHT! I won't go in, I'll head home NOW." And then she just disappeared. So I kept going past work, VERY slowly, and a car turned headed the other way and no apparition from her, and the car didn't even slow down.  So drove around the block, worried about helping her with the panic she was in because she needed help, and as I came up the side street, she was parked in her wheelchair blocking the nearer driveway into work and she turned her head 180 degrees from the way I'd left toward me and just started shaking her head and panicked waved her hands at me to GO, that I had to be home before midnight.

My dog didn't respond to her at all. My dog responds to the living, but she only responds to unincarnated spirits if they're malevolent or bad intent.

Then, on the drive home, I had a rabbit run out of nowhere from my left, then a deer from my right, then a young male deer from my left, then on my home circle, a fox from my right. The fox was chittering loudly at me and then after I parked the car, as I was coming upstairs I saw the fox sitting in front of the door to my condo building facing outward actively guarding. And after I locked and chained the door, after verifying Alana (who's still mostly staying in Spare Oom) was home, I heard a rush of wings and the great horned owl that lives nearby settled in on the ledge of my balcony near my wind chime, on the side of it that the cherry tree doesn't protect. had the strongest urge to leave the lights off like we'd all gone to bed and not stay up or show signs of anyone there. And then as soon as I'd gotten into pyjamas, the dog wanted to go to bed without dinner (I always feed the animals right before bedtime) and hopped up before I even lay down. Once I did lay down, she lay across my shoulder/arm between me and the window obviously on guard. And then the cat jumped up on the bed and ley on my other side exactly the same across the shoulder and arm, facing my bedroom door and clearly on guard.

Anyway, the woman, whatever her story is.... She didn't know she was dead yet. And her panic, it was about a living man, not anything spiritual. But it was VERY raw and VERY communicable. And I got the sense that whoever it was, it was the story behind her missing/wounded legs as well..... I think most of the panic was hers transferred to me. Having stared down a switchblade pulled on me and taken down grown men bigger than me when attacked AND faced down adn taken care of some VERY nasty piece of work evil malevolent spirits this life, there was no REASON for me to be so shaken. I actually respond to danger and emergencies by getting preternaturally calm and decisive, no fear of any sort, and time slows down while I move/think at hyper speed.  The panic in me and the intensity of the need I be careful and hide was all transferred from her panic and then with how quickly and thoroughly everyone/everything rose up to protect me including both animal spirits and some of the gods/devas/angels/fée who watch over me at all times.

But, that said, I do have an active concern about whoever she was afraid of. because he's a human problem and one who needs to be dealt with before he hurts again. And he's not something the spirit world or the gods/goddesses who watch over me can deal with. Humans must deal with the humans in things like this.... Which is why I'm hoping this newly dead lady comes to AJ... To move this forward and take out the rabid dog of a man that affected this lady's ghost so....

Now, I'm actually at work with my dog. My parents and Sarah and Ian and Karissa had a pizza party and game night tonight at the office while Mikaela and I finished watching Harry potter and the Half Blood Prince. (She'd never seen it before, and she's not read the books.) We also started Deathly Hallows Part 1 even though I told her we'd not finish it. (Got to the part where the house elves bring back Mundangus, so past Hedwig's untimely death.) But we both agreed we'll just start this one over next time I see her as she missed some important dialogue due to everyone talking VERY loudly and interrupting as their game finished.  I'm gonna head home now though. I'll add a postscript when I get there.

Not panicky or on edge or feeling unsafe or extra wary at all right now. But I'll still get myself home before midnight and keep an eye out. Just in case.  Go home, put on pjs, and curl up with some tea and read uninterrupted for a long while. I have nothing in the docket tomorrow (unless I decide to come into work) til heading to Milwaukee to see The Drowsy Lads at the ICHC (old converted church with its own pub.  My plan for Sunday is to come into work though. Have to take care of plants and get hours in and all that.

And, I don't plan to do anything about the one year during the day time or when busy. I just decided one year is my limit. It's not a deadline, just my limit on waiting for any signs of fixing what Britt broke and my limit on waiting to see if Eric would show any signs I ought to extend him any trust or belief that he wouldn't rationalize wrongs because of peer pressure, that he'd learned his lesson. I don't have to do it Sunday, probably will because New Moon while the veil is so thin it practically is nonexistent. Sunday is simply the deadline before things change because they have to and I give up on my trust/belief in their goodness and their desire to do the right thing instead of the ego driven thing.

And yeah, I'll add a postscript to this one once I get home. Before I get lost in a book, lol.

P. S.  Home now.  Figured out what the energy the panicky ghost was projecting reminds me of, a previous experience a couple years back.  You're not gonna like it thoigh. But I can safely say,  what she was on about,  if I'm right,  he's gone back to MN....