I need to talk to someone. Can you keep a secret?”“I can. It’s safe with me.”“I need to get away from Hal. He won’t leave me alone. He’s...acting crazy, and I need him to stop.”“I thought you and he were an item.”“I thought so too. And I didn’t listen to Peggy when she told me about him. He’s horrible!”“I could have told you that too. I really wish he wasn’t my uncle.”“Can you talk to him? Maybe you can make him stop bothering me. I told him I don’t want to see him anymore, but he keeps showing. There was a truly monstrous red-skinned demonic creature approaching with an open maw full of razor teeth. It was clearly not his mind or anything his eyes were seeing. The mind he touched felt as familiar as his own and yet it was neither Partner not his own. He instantly knew whatever the Leedei did, worked. He had made contact with his mother. She was alive and in some kind of spaceship, about to attacked by a bright red demonic creature.This realization, the storm of emotions. It broke. He said he couldn't miss this, and that he was going to drive out there and see it all for himself. I told him he better check with Zeke first and gave him the number to call. I had finished all my calls and headed for the cabin and something to eat.When I pulled, up the girls all came running out and about smothered me with attention. Tran was standing on the porch wearing a big smile at their antics. I was finally able to get out of the Jeep, but Dina and Dana proceeded to chew me out about. )Sanosuke: Damn. You get mad, you get hungry. (He unwraps a bean jam bun from his pack.) Last one. After this I'll probably have to start catching frogs to eat. (tossing it in his mouth) Oh well.(The ground rumbles under his feet. Sanosuke stumbles, and the bun hits the ground. He looks at it sadly for a long minute. Then he stuffs it in his mouth anyway.)Sanosuke (bursting into the clearing up ahead): Hey, where are you! Who do you think you are, messing around with people's meals?(A man is.