One night, Rowena wakes the narrator of "Ligeia", who has been sleeping fitfully beside her. She tells him that she sees things and hears things in the tapestries but none of it appears to him. He wants to show her that her imaginings are caused by the wind alone, but she is in a terrible state. Without the physicians nearby, the narrator goes to find some wine to revive her, but on the way he feels something pass beside him and notices a faint, angelic shadow on the ground. The narrator is under the influence of opium though and he doesn’t put much stock in it.
Fitting the description of her as a kind of double of Ligeia, Rowenaseems to have a sixth sense for the paranormal menace of thisroom. The narrator is in an altered state, drugged upon opium, andthough his visions appear to him in a hallucinatory daze, they alsoseem to conjure this angelic presence that are reminiscent of Ligeia’shold on him from beyond the grave.The narrator of "Ligeia" brings back the wine and Rowena begins to come to her senses again. But as she
brings the wine to her lips, the narrator thinks he sees some red liquid drop into the cup, but he doesn’t tell Rowena and she drinks down the wine. He imagines he dreamt the strange addition to the cup and the late houris causing him to hallucinate. But soon after,
Rowena’s condition changes for the worse and he believes that she will soon die.
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