‘Did your Dad leave already?’ I asked as I noticed the clock said it was already past midnight. Jacks flight had been at nine! Jeremy smiled. ‘Y...ah, he caught a cab about an hour after, um, well after you uh,’ he stammered, trying to finish the thought. ‘Passed out?’ I said with a smile. ‘Yeah, I guess you did at that! I never saw anything like that before Aunt Roz!’ he snickered. ‘Just Roz will do Jeremy, we’ve gone beyond ‘Aunt’ now don’t you think?’ I asked. ‘Not for me Aunt Roz, no matter. And I have been teased sincewhenever about my frail looks...I just may leave them as is, suffer thelooks for a week or so and then just blend in as I have with everythingelse that has been me over these many years." A smile beamed from Beckyjust as Amy arrived, puzzled look on her face stating "what are yougirls up to??"Decisions had been made to leave the hair, just trim back the nails andgo back to my big-framed glasses in lieu of contacts to "disguise" myshaped and thinned eyebrows. With. ’ Her resolve to leave seemed to be slowly easing. Finally, she agreed. ‘OK, maybe for just a little while.’ I poured a cup of coffee and put it on the counter. ‘Do you take cream and sugar?’ ‘No, just black please.’ She walked to the counter, picked up the cup and stepped back. She was obviously afraid of me. She was a beautiful young woman, obviously in very good shape, with long wavy blonde hair that fell well below her shoulders. As she removed her heavy coat, I could see the outline of. For the last few days, the village had been agog with stories of a boy named Isaac from the next village, who had gone into the forest the week before and hadn’t returned. There were plenty of things that could have happened to him, none of them pleasant, but without a corpse, or at least some scattered remains, the villagers were free to let their imaginations run wild. The forest was full of monsters, some mythical, others real, any of which could have done away with the boy. Rachel had felt.