There was a presence in the room with her. A presence she'd not felt before, it was different from that of any spirits she'd encountered. This was much more oppressive, much more ominous. As much as she tried to locate the presence she couldn't, it seemed to be all around her. There were no forms that she could see or sounds that she could hear. The presence was keeping itself hidden from view and was remaining silent.
"Show yourself," Robyn whispered nervously looking about her the same way.
There was no reply.
Robyn didn't know what to do. If she left the room the presence would follow, if she stayed it would stay too. She was trapped. There was no one in the house with her and even if there were they couldn't help her.
Someone rang the doorbell on the front door. Looking around the room again she got off of her bed and made for the door. She tried opening the door but it wouldn't budge. Invisible hands held it shut pushing against the door as she pulled it. Giving up her attempt on the door she looked around the room again as if trying to see where the presence was.
"What do you want with me?" she asked with more ferocity than before.
As if she'd finally asked the right question the invisible hands left the door and threw Robyn across the room onto her bed. Before she could move the sheets wrapped themselves around her of their own accord tying her down. One crept round and covered her mouth to block out any of her screams while another tightened round her neck for extra reassurance.
The last thing Robyn saw before she was lost in oxygen starved unconsciousness was a figure materialise from the shadows in the room.
Doctor Palley rang the doorbell a third time and still received no answer. He was about to give in and go home when the door opened and Robyn stepped out. There was something distinctly odd about her that he couldn't put his finger on. It seemed an investigation was in order.
"Hello Robyn. I was worried no one was coming. As promised I have the belt here, I can't see what you could possibly want with the thing but its here all the same." Doctor Palley said handing Robyn a plastic bag with the belt inside.
"Thank you Doctor. I'm sorry if there was any delay answering the door; I was blow drying my hair and didn't hear the first two rings."
Doctor Palley found this statement to be extremely odd for three reasons. The first was that he knew for a fact that Robyn never dried her hair with a hairdryer and most certainly didn't own one. The second was that had Robyn been drying her hair she wouldn't have known that he'd rung the doorbell three times only one of which she'd supposedly heard. This led him to a conclusion and his third reason for finding all this odd, she was lying. Robyn never lied. There wasn't a dishonest bone in her body and he knew this fact very well.
Feeling a sudden need to go home Doctor Palley turned on his heel and walked over to his motorbike. Starting it up he rode away from the house and headed out of town.
Once the doctor had gone the presence closed the door and transformed back into its invisible form. Detective Miller wasn't the only one that knew the trick and only the presence could shape itself into other people. It had been obvious that the doctor suspected something and now that it had done with the vessel the presence went to deal with the doctor.
Robbie sat in Ziggy's kitchen with a mug of cocoa. He'd suggested to Ziggy that they go over Doctor Palley's report together. That way they could share their thoughts and put their heads together on anything that confused them. They'd not yet read the reports and were about to when Ziggy's telephone rang. Sighing the candy enthusiast went to answer it.
When Ziggy picked up the phone all he got was the dialling tone as if the person had hung up. He replaced the receiver and stood by the phone waiting for it to ring again in case the person had thought Ziggy had missed the call and tried again.
Curious as to where Ziggy had gone off to for a little while and feeling the call of nature Robbie stood up and went to find Ziggy en-route to the bathroom. He found him in the hall standing by the telephone and was about to ask if he could use the bathroom when the phone rang again. He decided to use it anyway, Ziggy wouldn't mind and he was busy anyway.
Yet again there was a dialling tone when Ziggy answered the phone. He had a sneaky suspicion that someone was playing tricks on him and he knew who it was likely to be. His thoughts were disrupted when he smelt smoke somewhere. Running into the kitchen he saw that the kitchen table was on fire. He was about to call the fire brigade when Sportacus came running in.
At Sportacus' instruction he ran back into the hallway to grab his mini fire extinguisher and threw it for the hero to catch.
Sportacus didn't have time to put the fire out as it seemed to do it itself. All that was left of the table were four blackened stumps that had once been the legs. He stared at the table in utter confusion. He knew that tables didn't spontaneously combust and he also knew that they didn't put themselves out.
Ziggy walked back into the kitchen with the same look of confusion on his face.
"What could have happened?" he asked.
Sportacus shrugged, "I don't know. There wasn't anything flammable on the table was there, like a candle?"
"No, all we had on the table were out two cups of cocoa and Doctor Palley's reports. Nothing at all that could have done any damage."
Robbie walked back into the kitchen hurriedly he'd smelt smoke when he'd left the bathroom and had no idea what was going on. When he saw the state of the table he adopted the same expression as Ziggy and Sportacus.
"I guess we won't be reading those reports after all." Robbie stated glumly.
Ziggy and Sportacus nodded.
Doctor Palley wasn't far from his house in Greentown when he decided to back and confront Robyn. The girl was hiding something he knew it and he wouldn't stand for being lied to. He knew he had to go back and quickly. Finding a safe place to turn around he did so and zoomed back towards Lazytown.
The ride to Lazytown took forty minutes from Greentown but that didn't deter him. He had plenty of time to spare as it was his day off and he was determined to find the truth. No matter how much time or hard work it took he would get Robyn to confess that she was lying and would make her tell him the truth.
Within thirty minutes Doctor Palley was at the Crazytown/ Lazytown tunnel. He entered it and rode down. When he was halfway through the tunnel disaster struck. Without warning his motorbike went out of control and he couldn't get it back again. Before he knew it he was on the wrong side of the road and a car was hurtling towards him.
Despite almost standing on the brakes the driver of the car was too late. His car hit Doctor Palley's motorbike propelling the doctor into the air and over the roof of the car. Finally coming to a stop and pulling out his cell phone the driver called in the accident before leaving the car to check on the motorcyclist.
Doctor Palley wasn't moving.