“I would think twice before going in there. I suggest you do the same” said a voice from behind the thicket. I wondered who it could be, and so I went back there to find the person.

An old wrinkled body was lying there.

“Why?” I asked curiously.

“Because that’s where she lives. And you wouldn’t want to share your body with her now would you?” he asked with a wicked smile which knew more than it showed.

He was creepy. He invoked an uncomfortable feeling in me and I ran away from there as fast as I could. I didn’t ever want to encounter him ever again. I ignored his advice and went in to Windsor Castle anyway. There was no such thing as ghosts or in better words, spirits. That was my strong belief and it was going to remain that way.

The castle had a grand heavy door made of Oak, with 2 thick brass rings on the front. I pushed it open and stepped inside. A strange effluvium filled the atmosphere inside the castle, but I was determined to find out the secret which lies deep within, and so I ventured further inside.

The rooms were covered with cobwebs and a layer of soot. Obviously no one had cleaned this place since quite some time. All the rooms were open but one. It was sealed from the outside. No seal could stop me from going in there. I cleared off everything that stood in my way and went in. The moment I stepped in, I knew that I had made a mistake, a big mistake, a mistake that I would regret for my entire life, that is if I managed to come out alive.

“300 years” came a soft whisper just near me. It was a woman’s voice. It was a desperate voice. She wanted something badly, very badly, and she would cross any limits to acquire it.

“300 years I waited for a naïve little girl like you to come my way” she wailed in a high-pitched staccato voice. I could feel her presence growing stronger by the second. The door banged close and my heart pounded hard on my chest. Hot blood rushed through my veins as I tried to think of a way to escape. That is when I realised that there was no escaping from her. She was not going to let me casually stroll out of her castle just like that. She had her prey real close to her, she was not going to let it go, no chance.

A strong frosty gust of wind blew into the room as I felt a firm grasp around me. She threw me across the room and laughed with great delight. I collapsed every time I tried to get up. I had lost too much blood, there was no way I could get myself to stand up now. I looked up to find a pair of evil green eyes staring coldly into mine.

I got up covered with sweat. “Nightmare” I gasped. “It was just a nightmare” I reassured myself.

I rushed to the basin and splashed some cold water on my face. I had to stop watching horror films at night. I looked up at my reflection in the mirror. I looked dull. My face had had lost its usual charm and my hair was a big mess too. As I began untangling my hair, I saw a pair of green eyes flash at me from my reflection. And I began to doubt myself. “Was it really a nightmare?”

I felt a jolt of current inside me. My brain went all fuzzy and a sharp pain shot across my spine as I fell on my knees. My head gyrated wildly and I felt a certain important part of me leave me. It was my soul. I was no longer me. I was completely under her control. She could make me do anything, simply anything that she desired. She wanted revenge. She sought vengeance. And she yearned for it badly. She was going to use me like a parasite. I gasped for air, clutching my throat, I reached out for the blade which rested near me. I wasn’t going to live with her soul. I could never do that. I picked up the blade and struck it across several parts of my body, hoping to die due to heavy loss of blood. But alas, no blood came out. I had no soul, I had no blood, I was as good as dead, and yet I wasn’t dead. I was alive. Alive with a mad desire to kill, spill innocent blood and cause destruction to an extent it has never been caused before.

She launched me outside the window and landed me in my neighbour’s garden. There I saw old Mr. James watering his plants cheerfully. My mouth salivated, my hunger to kill strengthened and I pounced on him across the yard and sank my teeth deep into his throat, killing him instantly. Wiping the blood off my mouth, she laughed from inside me. Her evil thirst to inhabit a human body had been fulfilled. She left me there, as a corpse, a useless piece of flesh. And she left with a loud wail, eager to possess more and more people.