Imagine my (silent) joy to see Juliana at the ticket counter! We smiled at each other I congratulated her to her new hair-do, she sold me a ticket, I ...ent in and really enjoyed the band!When everything was over, many of the participants, members of the organizing team and other contributors mingled with the crowd in the lobby. My eyes scanned the scene, I knew a lot of people, but I couldn’t find Juliana anywhere, only her husband, so I soon went home again, tired as I was, and looking forward. That would only mark you as a pervert. An outsider. Not that he was exactly an insider now. But not exactly out either. He sort of orbited in a no-mans-land, somewhere between the utterly despicable and the barely tolerated.As his thoughts wandered so did he. Not so aimlessly any more. Now he tried to find his way out of this maze. This crisscrossing of streets. These dark, almost black, bodies of heavy buildings. Most windows already dark, curtains tightly drawn, shutting him out from the. Whatever we need to do we'll do." She nodded, wiped away her tears giving me a quick smile, and reached over to hold my hand. I wished I felt as confident that things would be okay as I had sounded but I didn't. I hoped I was wrong.When we arrived at the hospital we went straight to the ER but were told that everyone was already on the third floor in the ICU. Jilly and I glanced at each other, this wasn't the good start we'd been hoping for. When we arrived at the ICU we went straight to the. This was her first Festival without her older sister commanding the spotlight. Elaine was the district goddess now, and the spotlight was on her, along with all the duties that went with her exalted position. And right now, she was feeling stifled and controlled.'I've got to get out of here!' Elaine thought frantically.She shrugged the gown off her shoulders, unmindful that her ladies' attendant had spent the last thirty minutes fitting her for the festival that would begin shortly. She.