"... and then I came running home. That woman really freaked me out. It's like she thought she was a witch or something. And I know that she's not, because I saw her yesterday at the yard sale. She looked as normal as Mom. Anyway, when I was almost home ..."
Her dad just stared at her, then finally spoke up. "Do you really expect me to believe all this?"
Lisa knew it was a bad idea to tell him the truth, but she just couldn't lie to him. She never had before and she didn't want to start now ... well, she never lied about the important things, anyway.
"It's all true, I swear," she said.
He looked upset. "All you had to do was tell me the truth. Not some weird story. Do you think I'm that gullible?"
"Dad, it happened."
He looked at her. She really seemed to believe what she was saying. It worried him. Maybe she suffered some kind of head trauma that made her hallucinate or something. Or maybe she was taking drugs. His heart sunk at that thought. Lisa wasn't the type of girl to get into that sort of thing and there just weren't any signs of it ... or rather until now, that was.
"I can prove it," Lisa said.
"Prove what?"
"That what I told you was the truth."
"How?"
"The medallion. I dropped it on my way here. But if we backtrack, maybe we can find it."
He looked skeptical.
"Just humor me. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong."
If you're wrong, you're more than just wrong, her dad thought. You're mentally unbalanced. But he nodded anyway. He'd humor her. Then when they don't find the medallion thing, he'd get her some help. It pained him to think that about his daughter, but it was really only for her own good.
Not wasting any time, Lisa and her father left the house to search for the black case containing the Medallion of Zulo.
