Mildred took a step back and the pain in her finger subsided. She took several more steps back and her finger immediately started to heal before her eyes. She cocked her head. She knew that coin purse. It belonged to her mother’s sister, Claudia. But Claudia was buried with it. Mildred blinked. She stepped closer to retrieve the object, but stopped before she could reach it. Her finger where she touched the coin purse started glowing and smoking again, so she stepped back.
Mildred looked around. It was the same park she’d visited almost every day for the past 10 years. She watched as the coin purse slowly made its way back to the ocean. Plopped on a comfortable rock, she watched for the next hour until it had returned to the ocean and went out of sight under water. Her mother always said Claudia was a witch. Maybe she was.