Back "there" . . . you know. This time, no one was pushing my head. I was willingly smelling it. I sniffed again and winced but forced myself to kee... my face right there. I sniffed again and again and I can't say that the more I sniffed the easier it was, but I forced myself to do it anyway."Stop!" Keri commanded. "Now, look directly at her and say how much you love her smell."I did as she commanded even though I was forced to lie. I did it by substitution. What I mean is that while I was. She and Randi should have already been at the mall; they should have been there long before Frank showed up to screw things up even more. But Frank's arrival had only delayed them still further. That meant this was all Frank's fault. And yet, Frank's interference was something she could easily fix. "I won't let you cancel out on me at the last minute, Randi." Julie began grinning. "We're going to the mall tonight and that's final." "But Julie, I can't," objected Randi. "Didn't I just tell you. Jacob was known as a man to fight change tooth and nail. "And there are some things we need you to think about." Well, before we think about that, what about Amelia and Amanda?" Jacob asked."We think that is a good idea," Marnie said. "Not that they leave. I hope they know that they are part of our family now. But Susanna and J.J. brought this to us a few weeks ago and we've been going over things before we put it up to you and Jim. We're going to need a schoolhouse here and I think them two. ‘ ‘Would we?’ Syeira asked, interrupting her sister’s tirade. ‘You know the paths that were laid out on our hands. You have read the cards, the lines, and the stars since you were four and not once have you been wrong.’ Rawnie could not argue. Her gift was one she both embraced and dreaded. She had foretold the deaths of her family and though she had warned her father, he would not hear her words. ‘He should have listened,’ she whispered, as a tear slid haphazardly down her cheek. Syeira.