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purpose.”
    Lady Azura shrugged and turned to Lily. “I’m sorry,my dear,” she said to her. “But I fear we will not be successful tonight.”
    Lily looked disappointed, but also a little impressed. “So Sara’s powers are so strong that she can cancel yours out?”
    â€œI wouldn’t put it that way,” Lady Azura said drily. “Though Sara’s powers are indeed very strong. But I suspect what is happening here is that Sara is, perhaps unintentionally, preventing the spirits from being able to join us simply because she does not want them to. She’s not comfortable with this séance. The vibes in this room are all wrong.”
    I couldn’t tell if Lady Azura was annoyed at me or not. The look on her face was hard to read as she continued talking to Lily. “I believe that I was nearly successful in conjuring these spirits, but they do not feel welcome here”—I started to protest, and she silenced me with a look—“whether that is intentional or not on Sara’s part. But they can sense it. As a result, they are stuck. Hesitant to come all the way in. Like a crowded doctor’s waiting room. The spirits are lined up and ready to come in, but the doctor isn’t seeing patients.”
    A doctor’s waiting room? This made no sense tome. I wondered if maybe Lady Azura was just making up excuses for not being able to conjure the celebrity spirits Lily had asked for. But a small part of me wondered if I had really blocked them. Could I do that? If I was being really honest, I had to admit that I didn’t want them here. Didn’t want to do a séance with my best friend and my great-grandmother just for fun. I just wasn’t comfortable with it.
    I could tell Lily was disappointed, and I felt bad about it. “I’m sorry, Lil,” I said. “If I was doing that, I didn’t do it on purpose.”
    Lady Azura clasped my hand. “We believe you, my dear,” she said kindly. “Don’t we, Lily?”
    Lily smiled at me and nodded. “No worries, Sara. I think it’s totally cool anyway. Thanks for trying, Lady Azura.”
    When Lady Azura didn’t answer, I looked at her and saw she had walked over to the cabinet where she stored her crystals. “I could also be wrong about the origin of the block,” she said distractedly as she carefully peered at some crystals on the shelf. “I sense a tremendous disturbance in the atmosphere.”
    â€œWhat kind of disturbance?” asked Lily.
    â€œIt feels weather related,” Lady Azura replied as she laid a few crystals out on the table. “It is coming on very quickly, though. I think perhaps a storm is brewing outside.”
    A storm? Well, that was no big deal. “Well, I guess that makes me feel better, that it’s not all my doing,” I said.
    Lily stood up. “Like I said, no worries,” she repeated, playfully tapping me on my shoulder. “I don’t know what I would have said to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers anyway! Come on. Let’s go upstairs and get ready for bed.”
    We thanked Lady Azura and headed out into the hallway. My dad was coming down the front stairs.
    â€œOh, good,” he said, noticing us right away. “I was coming to look for you. There’s a storm coming up the coast that’s supposed to make a turn to the west and may head straight for us over the weekend.”
    â€œA big one?” asked Lily. “Like one that would cause atmospheric disturbances?”
    My dad furrowed his brow and grinned at her good-naturedly. “Could be, Lil,” he said. “Right now it’s out to sea and categorized as a full-fledgedhurricane. Hurricane Seymour, they’re calling it. The storm is still quite far south and east of us, and they think it will be downgraded to a tropical storm by Sunday morning,” he said. “Still, people in these parts don’t play around