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There was so for everyone

At last she can advertised Madaland!

Not in Salem--just like the haunted house, she was the best in all New England!

She noted the wine bar next door and smiled

Bells chimed when she opened the door to the shop Like the otherthe busy trade of Haunted Happenings Men and woris-gris bags,

Jenna approached the counter and asked about a reading with Madairl behind the desk with black pigtails and a huge nose ring told her "A lady just becao back to her hotel We’re otherwise booked all day, so you are lucky, lucky, lucky!"

"How lucky indeed," Jenna ht?"

"What?"

"The lady as faint--she was all right?"

The girl waved a hand in the air "Oh, her husband just took her back to her roo!" she said happily "Co--we have to adhere to a schedule, of course You’re ever so lucky!"

Jenna followed the woman to the back and a setup that was siic

The clerk opened a heavy damask drapery for her and led her into the s

Madaypsy-style dress, and her hair was ink-black, long and sleek as it fell down her back Her eyes were so blue they were alht that added atmosphere to the cubicle, that the color had been enhanced with contact lenses She wore very heavyto her look of the sexy gypsy reader

She wore a live boa constrictor around her neck; the animal somehow seemed to increase the size of her breasts and enhance her sensualabout her that seeer on it

"Ah," Madam Sam said softly "Welco!"

She didn’t offer Jenna a hand but instead indicated a chair in front of her table, which held a crystal ball and a large tarot deck

Jenna said "You know hed, a low, throaty and melodious sound "Of course I know you Your nahtfully devilish rogue, Saate the recent horrors that have occurred in Saleood," Jenna told her "I mean, we haven’t met, but you do know exactly who I am"

"Oh, yes, and you work for the FBI," Madam Sam said

"Okay…"

"Aye, yes, well, my other powers may be questionable, but I do read the local papers very well," Sa to speak with ed with amusement, and the sound was down-to-earth

"I’ve wanted to talk to you And with all the business going on with Haunted Happenings, I thought I should seize this opportunity"

"Talk away We have fifteen minutes," Sam told her

The boa stretched out toward Jenna

"Nefertiti won’t hurt you," Samantha assured her quickly

"I’m not afraid of snakes," Jenna told her

"Good old Saint Patrick got them all out of Ireland, eh?"

"Doesn’t she scare away costued "Some, maybe But I think she attracts more than she loses It’s all showmanship, really"

"So you’re not a medium?"

"What’s a medium, really? I talk to people, I try to understand the to fall into their laps, or that they will find true love What I do is try to draw out what is troubling theht take I don’t have any kind of a degree in psychology but, really, reading people is siht call that being a fraud," she warned

"And so I’m sure that some call you a fraud"

"Oh, definitely," Jenna said, chuckling some more

Samantha picked up the tarot cards and shuffled them "Not the tarot cards--they come up as they come up, and a reader is supposed to interpret theht be interpreted So, shall we read the cards? Cut, please, and we’ll use the Celtic Cross layout"

Jenna cut the cards and Saan to lay them out