Why was it so hard to think?I opened my eyes again. They still stinged. Stanged. Stang. Stung. They stung, but not as much. I kept them open. Same puk... green ceiling. I looked around. I was in a hospital room. I should have known. Only hospitals and prisons use colors like that. Mom was standing on one side of my bed and Tami on the other."What happened?" Do you remember the fire?" Mom asked.The fire. The fire! "It was hot." Those are some good drugs," Tami murmured, earning her a dark look. I hope you got your keys with you, dude.” He hadn’t spotted a key ring in any obvious location on the way from the front door to the kitchen; most likely, Hank had the keys in his pocket when he’d disappeared. He wondered if Ginny was with him at the time, or if he’d dropped by Albertson’s on the way home from work. Ginny’s parked her red convertible in the garage; he didn’t know if she’d been home, or not. He didn’t really care.“How far does this go?” he wondered aloud. Reopening the. "I dressed as Wonder Woman because I want to be Good."A cloud of ideas burst from the word 'Good' and swirled around us asfragments of words, images and emotions: "Hero", "Justice", "Loving","Kind", "Guardian", "Fairness".Abi replied as if she'd been following my train of thought. "Your fatheronce wielded this power. It frightened him so much that he left you andyour mother. He feared he'd hurt you."I looked at Abi, into her open face. I was hurting and felt raw. This wasthe truth, wasn't it?. Strong muscles rippling in her arms and shoulders, Jade propped the tightly bound Snowflake fairy in a kneeling position on the bedside table. Dipping her fingers in the tankard, she flicked cold water in the unconscious one's face.With a sputter, the Snowflake opened her eyes. In the span of a heartbeat she understood completely what had happened. "Oh no!" she whimpered, while struggling uselessly against the bonds that held her immobile. "Please, it, it was a joke! I'd never claim an injured.