"I met her just now. Everything around her little cage has vanished. Even the cage itself is starting to disappear. I think she's been kept away from ...er own mind for too long and now ... n-now it's dying." What?!" Melinda cried."Cassie, are you sure?" Jason declared."Yes, I'm sure, Jason!" Cassie snapped. "Please, don't push me to give you facts and figures, just accept what I said!" I didn't mean... " Jason trailed off and glanced at Diane for a second. "Yes, of course I believe you. Is there. When I came back, I could not find Victor, but Rob and Cal asked me to help them choose some records on the juke box. They let me take a closer look and as I bent over the machine, I could feel them huddle behind him. I could feel even their warm breath on my neck as they pretended also to look from behind me. I was so turned on knowing they were checking my butt, that I bent over even more, sticking my rear in the air…Just then Victor came back from the bathroom and he smiled at me when he. When he was satisfied, he helped her to situp and adjusted the back of the chair. He kept the chair facing awayfrom the mirror on the wall behind the sink."Ummm, Mr. Kenneth," Beth murmered. "Ummm, I was looking in somehairstyling magazines a friend gave me and I though, well, ummm, Ithought that maybe you... ." A magazine!" Mr. Kenneth interrupted her. "A magazine! Mr. Kenneth isto use a hairstyle from a magazine? Mr. Kenneth makes hairstyles formagazines. Perhaps Beth will take her magazine. Now, I ain't tiny, but I felt like I was, standing beside him.The jostle of his elbow caused him to spill a little of his beer on his shirt. I would have been annoyed if it had happened to me, so I was not surprised by his negative reaction, but I was not prepared for what happened. He swung around and hit me in the chest with his beer mug. The force of the blow threw me four or five feet through the air and completely knocked my breath out. He shouted, "WATCH WHERE YA'RE GOIN', YA DAMNED.