Then completely destroyed the memory of her final act of defiance, leaving only the memory of her mother's 'accident' behind.Lastly, he gathered toget...er the memories she had manufactured of him as an angel, as a beacon, and he replaced them. He inserted himself as Stacy saw him. He was a young man, fallible, earnest, loving and sometimes juvenile, but ultimately caring and careful. From Zoe, he took her trust for him, her certainty that he would never hurt her or allow her to come to harm.. “Just gathering information my dear.” My mother replied.[“I’m very proud of you Toman, not many would have done what you did for someone they hardly knew. Rest you have council with Tall Bear, Merlin and your grandfather.”] My mother’s thoughts said.[“Here I thought I had masked all, I never thought you would detect me.”] I answered.[“I am your mother, as if I couldn’t tell you were awake.”] I felt my mother’s almost smirking thoughts.Naci suddenly sat up cocking her head to the side as if. It was hard.The oven had about 5 minutes left, so I cracked open a beer and leaned up against the cabinet. There was a golf tournament next weekend. I wasn’t planning on being there to play. Six hours away from Allie, to goof off, was not going to happen. I called the club and put my name down. Word gets around pretty quickly. Ron, the club pro, asked if it was true and shared his condolences. He told me he’d missed her since the middle of last summer when she had to stop playing golf herself.. In a way, that was quiterefreshing. However, I was also surrounded by a lot of strangers, most ofwhom were adults, and I was feeling a bit bored.Dad just smiled at me, "Look around. I'm sure that there are other kidsaround here your own age." I just grunted faintly at that.Then my mom suddenly gasped as she saw someone and hurried over to where alarge man and another woman were talking. She quickly shook the man's handand then hugged the woman before giggling, "Lions and tigers and bears..." Oh.