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Epilogue

It had been a month, since the Spirit of Fidelity and I had escaped from the World of Warcraft. It's shutting down had merited a few columns in the national papers, as disgruntled gamers complained, but eventually after a week it was back up. There was no sign of the Spirit of Lust, somehow she must have been trapped as a stream of electrons.

For the most part the papers were still trying to solve the double murder of two police officers, and the double murder of a Romany lady and the female barista at the coffee shop the two doppelgänger s had visited. The case was going nowhere as there were no leads, but what could I tell them?

I had no further visitors from the Mystical Realms, there would still be some kind of civil war I summarised, but without their leaders it most likely would be a standard trolls v orcs affair, with the elves drafted in to tackle the drow remnants.

I dropped into a coffee shop where I had found Fidelity a job, under the name of Faith

"How's it going" I asked her
"Hard, I keep thinking of them every day, mother and sister"
"Sorry Fidelity, all my investigations have drawn a blank so far"

She looked down at the floor, "me too, I have been trying this google thing, but it keeps returning something called Samanda"

This caused me to think, and then I glanced at an old copy of the News of the World, which had the story that Sam and Amanda had been seen at a hotel with their respective fellows. This was why things happened this year.

Sam and Amanda were human analogues of the spirit twins Sam was Fidelity, Amanda was Fancying. Their presence on Big Brother must have caused ripples in the collective Unconsciousness and forced the Spirit of Lust's hand.

Fidelity could see I had phased out, "Graeme"

"What?"

"Do you think she is dead?"

"The Spirit of Lust"

Fidelity nodded

"I don't know" I replied, "I would like to think so" I told her.

"I have to get back to work now" Fidelity told me, as she went to serve an unexpected queue of customers.

I left the coffee shop

I could not tell if the Spirit of Lust would arise again, as she had not been dispatched with hind's blood , and whilst people gave into lusts and animal desires, there was still a chance that one day she might return, but for now we had gained a kind of victory, but the Spirit of Fancying was out there in the world, possibly thinking she was the Spirit of Fidelity, and maybe not even knowing she was a virtuous spirit at all.

Only time would tell.