Hello, friends, and welcome to Sleeptight Stories.

Nicole and her mother are shocked when they open the book to look inside and find the words,

The guides walk unseen, their purpose known only when the seeker is ready to listen.

They have walked this path before.

Does this really mean someone else has been there before her?

Nicole and the Box in the Barn, Part 19.

Dinner was quieter than usual, though not in an uncomfortable way.

Nicole and her mother ate their meal, breaded fish and roasted PEI potatoes, while the weight

of what they had read, lingered between them.

Neither of them rushed to talk.

Instead, they sat there eating, lost in their thoughts,

both coming to terms with the truth they were beginning to understand.

After helping clear the table, Nicole excused herself early. No TV tonight. She climbed the stairs to her room, the book tucked under her arm. Lying in bed, she traced the edges of the leather

cover, her fingers running over the faint ridges

where time had worn it smooth.

You're not the first person to walk through that door.

The words echoed in her mind, twisting and turning like the compass needle when it spun without direction.

Someone had done this before her.

Someone had followed the same paths, met the same guides, and uncovered the same mysteries.

But who? And what had they found?

Nicole stared up at the ceiling,

the question swirling in her head

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