"After that morning our lives started to gradually change for the better,for all three of us. The 'big bad wolf' wasn't around anymore tointimidate us...The biggest change I witnessed was in my mother. Her usually sad andunhappy disposition changed to a happy one. Her eyes got back a sparkle Iremembered from when I was a young boy. She started laughing again andfor the first time I saw her joking with Marina who started calling herwith her small name Adele and not Mrs. Allen anymore.Several days. Why? Moreover, who else might appear in this time that had previously been in the future? There were no noticeable changes in his family and friends that he could detect. So ... why were these two women from the future appearing in the “here-and-now?” Too may questions without answers. He was getting that feeling of discomfort he felt after his jump to 2011. What was real ... and what was imaginary?Monday, December 11, 1961 5pm“Happy Birthday, Jesse!” his mother beamed, handing him a large. Light it up. Smoke the crack," Chrissie said.And with that, Samantha flicked the lighter and took her first hit ofcrack. It felt magical.As Samantha took hit after hit from the crack pipe, Chrissie whisperedinto her ear... "You love crack. You are addicted to crack. You mustsmoke it all the time. You'll do anything to get it. It is painfulwhen you are not high. Cocaine and crack. You love them. You love tosnort coke and smoke crack. It doesn't matter what it does to you oryour career.. Hissath's hunches had saved their necks more than once.It was well that he did. With no more warning they were surrounded by a silent rush of shadows. Flame reared, neighing and flailing his hooves, and plunged ahead. Ranulf reined him to a halt, then plunged back into the thick of the shadows in search of Hissath."Ho! To me!"The clotted darkness broke apart as Fangeen lurched ahead. Side by side they faced their attackers in the gathering darkness."Yah Ssillah Ssithanth!" Hissath cried out,.