“I am all for it. You need some time to yourself. If Tom doesn’t mind, neither do I.”“I do play ball with the guys every morning so I won’t ...e at the pool’s edge until the game is over, but you can always call to me if something happens.”“I have been swimming since I was six, and I only talk to the other girls. Mom told me never to talk to strangers.”“Tom has given me his telephone number and I am going to call Caitlin’s mom as well.”“Caitlin?”“That is the other young lady that Tom watches. "She shot me a wicked grin and shut the door behind her.The next day I glanced at the directions to get to her house on the upperwest side, but I there was no need to follow them. She had a place at theDakota, one of NYC's landmark buildings, where John Lennon lived, anddied, more than 30 years ago. I was ushered inside by a doorman in fulllivery. He called at the desk in the foyer to announce me. I took theelevator up to the 5th floor. She opened the door in a light bluebabydoll, and before I. If she tried to set it out now, she'd only confuse herself, or think in circles. "Okay, I talked," Lani said, changing the subject. "Now tell me about Karl. You must have spent your day with him to learn so much." "He's too good for me," Dee said, and Lani scoffed. They'd covered this ground before. "You're a queen among women, Dee," Lani said. "The question is whether he's good enough for you." "He was such . . . such a gentleman," Dee said, her voice soft. "He let me talk, he listened to me,. Once I expend that, I'll be gone forever."Heather's head was spinning. She wanted to ask so many questions. She wished the vision had taken on some other form. She had to resist the urge to scream at the substitute Mara for screwing up her life."You need to know two more things," the vision said, her voice tinny. "The first is the link. The link is forged, but it has to be maintained and improved. I think you realize this, but none of you can ignore it anymore just because it's.