Sally smiled her best smile, she was totally charged up that he had spent so much time making her a present. ‘This is excellent!’ she cooed at him... Sally sighed. Then she noticed, something was wrong, she could see it, he was staring at the floor. ‘What’s the matter?’ she asked. ‘Nothing, I just got to go do some shopping in Alton, I’m late,’ Terry said quickly. ‘Well this is really nice,’ she said touching his arm, ‘it’s just beautiful.’ What in the world was wrong? What the hell was wrong?. It walked, stumbled really, to the edge of the village and collapsed there for any to see.” I looked at her and the others with an obvious look of confusion, but also amazement. “Yes, very unusual. Even injured or ill, a wild a****l like a panther, an a****l close to the top of the food chain, would avoid humans, if at all possible. They confirm that this behavior is especially out of the ordinary.” She stopped, yet I could sense there was more she had heard.The other women began talking among. I'd really have to think about this, and I didn't want to do my thinking on the side of I-30.After thirty seconds or so of the radio blasting "Out in the West Texas town of El Paso / I fell in love with a Mexican girl" and so on, I focused on the old song and I stopped thinking about the danger I had been in and my reliance on an unknown person from the internet. 'Cause when I thought about that, my hands shook. So I postponed thinking about that; I'd do that later. Voluntary procrastination. Paul guided us to the next table to that same man and as we drank our coffee he started to discuss the stranger, to talk about what he’s seen in the gent’s toilet. I was already guilt-ridden at my feelings in the queue and I just wanted him to change the subject. The animated way Paul spoke and his expression hinted of what he wanted me to do and I was frightened, I began to panic. No. I truly know that my husband loves me so I dismissed those terrifying thoughts and I put my irrational terror.