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driveway. Something occurred to me, it was sitting in the exact same spot it was in my vision. This reminded me to ask Scruffy more about how he came to me in the caverns.
    “I know you have to get back, bro, but I need to know, now, about how you knew about where I was…and this Argento person you keep mentioning?” I stopped him right before we approached the car.
    “I guess I’ve been gone long enough. Another few minutes ’ delay won’t hurt.”
    “Thanks , man.”
    “Since we’ve been at each other’s throats, I’ve been suspicious about you. Your parents thing, the fact that I’ve known you for two years and never met them or seen your house. So…I started following you. More so to make sure you were okay; like you weren’t hiding being homeless or something.” He laughed, but still seemed serious.
    “Well, in a round-about way, you’re right.” I grinned at him back.
    “Don’t get mad at me for that, man. It really was so I could make sure my friend was okay.”
    “It’s all good . Continue.”
    “So, after Sandra and I saw you in the park, we followed you to make sure that you weren’t gonna run off and kill yourself or something over the Shade situation. You looked down and out when we saw you.” Scruffy leaned against the car and folded his arms.
    “I knew something wasn’t right with you, Leo. Something was off. Then one day, I was debating about coming up this hill to see where you lived, when all of a sudden I saw that cat of Shade’s, or yours, or whoever’s, holding what I thought…”
    “It was Shade’s necklace in his mouth ,” I answered for him, which made Scruffy give me a strange look.
    “Ye-yeah —how did you know that?” He tilted his head.
    “I can’t explain it myself, because it’s something I ’ve recently come to learn about myself…I see things. Things that have happened or will happen…I’m not sure.”
    “So…is that it? Is that all you know?” Scruffy waved his hands as if urging me to finish his story.
    “No. I saw you follow Shadow…our cat, up the hill to my place here, all the way up until you bent over and picked up Shade’s diary and the necklace. I heard a voice call to you…then I saw nothing more.”
    “Wow .” Scruff just shook his head. “That’s exactly what happened. Which reminds me…” He reached into his pocket and pulled out Shade’s necklace, then grabbed the diary out of his back pocket and handed them to me. “…here you go. You need to really watch where you guys leave that diary.”
    I rolled my eyes . “Trust me…I know.”
    “So you don’t know anything past that point?”
    “Nope. Just you, somehow, magically, showing up in Transylvania. That’s it.”
    “Well , then, as I was trying to figure out what the hell was going on, these two people…” he huffed, “called out to me. They scared the crap out of me in the process, and told me they were your friends.”
    “My friends?”
    “That’s what they said. The guy was named Argento, the girl was named…I forget. Began with an A, I think.”
    “I’ve never heard of an Argento, or either of them , for that matter. What did they look like?”
    “Well, they sure knew all about you.” He shrugged.
    I could only lower my eyes in confusion as Scruffy continued.
    “They both wore long robes of pure white with hoodies resting behind them; kind of reminded of Gandolf ’s garb in Lord of the Rings . The two of them had very long, straight, blond hair, nearly white. Their pupils were a cross between silver and white. Almost like those contacts people put in their eyes for Halloween or something. I’d never seen eyes like that before.”
    Scruffy began t o sound like he was describing a pair of angels to me. But what in the world were they doing around my camp, talking to humans I know? More important than that, why were they here?
    “They told me to trust them, which I didn’t, and they knew where you were and that I was the only one that could help