”Alyssa reached over to squeeze his hand. “You nearly took yourself out too.”There were shocked gasps from the girls at that announcement and Jo...n looked around at them apologetically. “That definitely wasn’t intentional. I tapped so much power from Alyssa, Jade, and Edraele that I was high as a kite. If Alyssa hadn’t snapped me out of it ... I dread to think what might’ve happened.”“You’ve drawn huge amounts of psychic energy from your matriarchs before,” Calara said, looking puzzled. “Why did. I mean, nobody was really putting a gun to your head or so. You even celebrated the achievement, didn’t you.”Donna felt so ashamed as she shook her head in agreement, crying again.“I did hear you have outdone yourself at the gym. Was it fun flaunting your sweaty body for Bill? Trying to get him to fuck you? You know you are a staunched lesbian now, aren’t you?”Donna didn’t understand this, but just shook her head again.“Then why flirt with men?!” Ninon exclaimed, and a wave of lashes came down. They had been a close family. Everyone was proud of their brother who had graduated Annapolis Naval Academy.Another son had become an editor for a newspaper out on the west coast, in LA. A daughter had gone to college and graduated with a degree in theater arts and was the manager of a playhouse in New York City.Those two cities had been hit hard with the flu/plague. All cities with international airports had been hit hard. I had a radio tuned to the local emergency broadcast channel and the. I know you are all one clan, but you are different families within the clan. What do you call it? Casas? We're not trying to force you all into one living space."There wasn't anything I could say. I hugged my dad and we went to look at the barn again. We spent the next half hour calculating how many bales of hay and straw we could store in the loft and how many horses the farm would support if we decided to expand the herd. I could see there was one corral that was set up for riding. If we put.