(August 22, 2005, Monday).
Divina is with the hotel’s owner when she feels herself changing. He holds her hand and the wrinkles and lines begin to show. She is transforming. Divina tries to get away but is unable to. The man is shocked to see an old woman before him. He screams. Divina uses her occult power to suck out his voice just as she has done with all her previous victims. He runs away.
Iking is holding the toy given him by that woman. He holds it aloft when Milagros sees it. He tells her how he got it. She scolds him for accepting gifts from strangers, then she apologizes as she is just worried for him. She tells him the doctor has advised them to go home and wait for word on Lenlen when she recovers. They go home.
Narda is in the building and she knows someone needs help. As Darna she runs into the hotel owner and asks what has happened to him. He runs away to his room to get a pen and paper to write down his answer since he cannot speak. But Darna has not gone after him. Instead, Divina is there. She is angry with Darna for meddling as usual with other people’s affairs. She smiles at him with an ice pick in her hand. The poor man tries to escape. She stabs him dead and he falls.
Efren goes to see Ava and finds her packing. He asks why, and she tells him she needs a change of scenery and wants to check into a hotel for a day. Efren offers to take her there. She agrees, but reminds him he must not check in with her.
Ava and Efren are now in the hotel. Ava wants to see Narda working there. Narda does see them and Ava knows, but Efren does not. Narda hides and calls over a coworker. She asks the other woman to give a letter to Efren along with her engagement ring. The woman does as requested. She tells Efren someone wishes to give them to him. He opens the letter and asks where Narda is. The woman informs him Narda has left as their shift has begun. Efren reads the letter. In it, Narda says she wanted to do this in person but was unable to. She reminds him that they must move on with their separate lives. Ava looks on as he reads it. She asks why she doesn’t have her own engagement ring. Efren says it is not necessary as he has already proposed to her. Ava says she still wants one so he tells her he will buy her one too.
Ava steps into the ladies’ room to wash her hands and face. As she does this, the green snake’s skin begins to manifest in her face and arms. Two young women enter just then and scream. They have seen Valentina.
- written by: South Rock
