It was only for a brief second, but Elise could feel the air was tense earlier. She stared at Cynthia, was her arrival the one that brought that tenseness? Skeptically, Elise seized Cynthia's figure, she didn't want to doubt, but after experiencing yesterday where she saw Barner wearing the skin of the late Mr. Alfred.
"Cy," Elise called her name, closing the book and setting it aside. With what she had seen from her eyes, Cynthia didn't look anything different than before and she didn't know how to differentiate between the real Cynthia or if someone had taken her appearance as Ian couldn't see the difference between the real Alfred and Barner either.
"Yes?" Cynthia questioned, looking at her with her eyes filled with inquiry as the way Elise gazed at her was strained.
"What's wrong sweetheart?" came another voice which Elise could tell it was Ian.
