Chapter 75.1- Doom Days

She snapped awake in the dead of the night. A siren was ringing. The high pitched sound coming from the walls of her room themselves. She slid her wand out from underneath her pillow, and pointed it straight ahead before she rolled backwards off the bed and onto the floor. No spells came. The ringing from the wall continued. Was this one of her aunt’s tests? She wondered. Usually the attacking would have started by now, and she would be expected to duel her way to the floo room in order to win the game by ‘escaping’. She’d never won one of these.

The siren kept ringing. And her aunt had never used something like this instead. Speaking of, where was her aunt? If this was a test, she should have been dodging spells by now. Yet there was nothing. Just the siren ringing. She rose, leaving the room, warty of an attack. But none came. It was only until she reached her aunt’s solar that she found the woman who was most likely testing her.

All along the way, the same ringing sound had been coming from the walls.

“Auntie?” She called, walking in after a knock.

“Oh, Susan?” Her aunt called in recognition. She was hunched over a case file, reading it in the light of the overhead fixture.

“The wards woke you, did they?” Her aunt asked, acting like this was all a normal situation.

“Yeah, what’s going on?”

“Nothing serious. You can go back to bed.”

“That doesn’t sound like nothing serious” She said, pointing at the walls as they kept ringing.

“This used to happen all the time when you were younger. I’m surprised you don’t even remember. Probably someone whose family member we’ve put away recently. They get drunk, stumble their way over here. Shoopt a couple pot spells at our wards and then they leave.”

“But what if its something more serious”

“I checked. It’s a single adult male. It would take more than a single wizard to breach our wards, Susan. Don’t worry.” She assured, and then the second those words left her aunt’s mouth, there was a sound from the outside, and then the entire house shook like it was the victim of an earthquake before the motion stopped. The ringing stopped with it.