THE EVIL IN THE HOUSE

Ellis could not tell the person behind his auditory and visual hallucinations, because of course, the doctors had attributed them to stress and loneliness. But in truth, someone was tampering with his mind. And it was Yelena. It had started as merely a game to Yelena - a bit of harmless mischief to amuse herself and scare Ellis, since she knew that Ellis had found out about her. Ellis himself did not know, but there was a bug in his own room that the technicians had not seen on the day that they saw the one in Mr Cyrus’s room.

Apart from shape shifting, she possessed a unique gift, one that allowed her to reach into the minds of others and plant insidious whispers that could slowly erode their grips on reality. At first, she only used her powers sparingly while working as a maid at the vast Royale estate. A fleeting murmur in the ear of the house keeper to make her question if she had remembered to lock the windows. A hint of disembodied voices reaching one of the befuddled househo