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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) For a few days now, the woman feels a strange sense of unease.

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The woman has always led a very solitary life, avoiding casual encounters.

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Working as a freelancer translator, it has been easy for her to create her own rhythm

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that almost completely excludes the presence of other beings.

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All unavoidable exchanges are dealt with messages, emails, or at the most video calls.

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For the rest, she has constructed her day as a repetition of pleasant rituals.

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Getting up in the morning, having breakfast in the backyard, weather permitting, doing some work,

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setting the kettle for coffee mid-morning, holding the steaming mug standing in front of the first floor window,

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following the train as it arrives at the station, separated from the backyard only by a stretch of uncultivated land.

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She has only recently moved into the house, and she loves it.

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It's large, luminous, with huge French windows, and a spectacularly polished honey-coloured wooden floor in every room.

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But now, this strange sensation of unease.

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Because the woman has realised that the house, sought for long months, now finally found and rented,

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is inhabited by strange beings.

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For several days, sporadically and without any discernible pattern,

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the woman catches sight of strange beings with the corner of her eyes.

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Strange beings moving elusive behind her, always and inevitably outside her direct field of vision,

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except for a fleeting sensation that remains to her, filling her with anxiety.

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She has time and again tried to trick the beings, pretending indifference in the hope they would manifest,

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but there is absolutely no way to understand their rhythm,

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making it impossible for her to prepare by paying the right attention to the periphery of her field of vision.

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So, whenever it happens, the woman tries in vain to push her gaze, to retrace her steps,

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to recreate a situation that had caused or evoked the manifestation of the elusive beings,

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but, alas, everything proves useless.

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This sudden overcrowding has naturally and understandably shaken her.

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Overcoming almost immediately a certain fear of the unknown and the supernatural,

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the woman begins to question what has driven the fleeting beings to take up residence in her newly rented home.

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And even more so, she finds herself distracted, unable to apply herself to her work matters.

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Her mind drifts into the void, wondering what purpose such fleeting beings might serve,

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whether they might perhaps be bearers of some message from other dimensions that she is, however, incapable of understanding.

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What troubles her most is not so much their presence, but the fact that they refuse to manifest themselves openly,

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circling around her and surrounding her with their presence instead.

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Now a sudden sparkle after descending the wooden staircase,

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then a glint behind her after closing the French window that opens onto the backyard.

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The thought of the slippery presences keeps growing in the woman's mind,

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devouring an ever greater portion of her attention during the day.

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She has understood one thing, and this is the only fixed point of her investigations.

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She knows that the presences manifest only when she is in motion.

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So she has now begun to invent excuses to interrupt her work, usually done in the upstairs study,

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to descend the stairs and go to the kitchen under the pretext of getting a glass of water or preparing a cup of coffee,

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while she only wants to provoke the appearance of the fleeting beings.

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Each time that they manifest without her being able to claim any credit,

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it is yet another moment of frustration that leaves her with that sense of inadequacy and discomfort that has now taken hold of her.

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She had searched long for that home.

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For months she had combed agencies, visited houses and apartments that she had immediately felt alien and distant from her needs.

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When she was finally shown this house, she had sensed an instant feeling of warmth and home.

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She had not hesitated to offer more than the owner demanded, just to secure the lease.

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A reprehensible practise she knows very well, and one she would have never done

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had it not been that this house had immediately captivated her, making it impossible and unthinkable for her to imagine not living there.

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And now, in her second week of occupancy, she finds herself at the crossroads,

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because the impossibility of seeing, or at least understanding the meaning of those elusive presences,

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is wearing her down from the inside, preventing her from living her quiet and orderly life.

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From a strictly practical standpoint, the woman has no proof whatsoever of the existence of such beings,

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so she cannot turn to anyone, nor would she know what to say or how to report those presences.

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Yet, they are not only confirmed, but obvious and undeniable.

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By the third week, the woman has completely abandoned any pretence of wanting to continue leading her normal freelancer life,

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made of emails to clients, searching for new jobs, sporadic visits to the supermarket and occasional evening walks.

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Now, she spends her day wandering through the rooms, lingering especially in those spaces where she has the impression that the fleeting presences have manifested with greater frequency.

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Sometimes, she even addresses them aloud, directly, in the hope of luring them out into the open,

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hoping that they, once and for all, reveal what their function is.

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Receiving no response, by the fourth week, the woman goes to the market to buy several bouquets of flowers,

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among the most fragrant, and distributes the individual flowers in all the rooms,

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hoping that their alluring scent will make the elusive presences understand her good disposition and her fervent desire to communicate.

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This action proving useless, the woman combs through ancient books and modern information technologies,

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in search of phrases, spells and prayers known for their power to induce presences to reveal themselves.

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Tired, exhausted and frustrated by the failure in what has now become her only occupation,

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by the fifth week, the woman calls the real estate agent to give notice and to look for a new home.

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What the woman does not know is that the elusive presences are nothing other than the luminous reflection of objects

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that bounce off the spectacularly shiny wooden floor when the light hits just at the right angle.