"Please, you have to tell me, what if they lose the race."The wolf's eyes turned to her filled with pain and emptiness. "Why make me say it when you a...ready know the answer."Courtney gasped and started running as fast as she could, an almost ghostlike creature in a diaphanous nightgown running across the Lake House lawn to Jaclyn's apartment. She beat upon the door until a few moments later a sleepy Jaclyn opened it."Courtney, what in hell, it's the middle of the night, what's wrong?" I have to. I hadn’t seen anything more than an hour from Fargo. ‘Hah, no. I’ve barely left the city my whole life.’ The Hiker’s eyebrows drew up sharply and he looked at me over his sunglasses. ‘No shit? You should come with me.’ His head tilted towards me, a conspirator smile blooming. This man was the devil and he had come just to tempt me. ‘Just a week or two, then take the bus back home. No big deal, just sight seeing.’ My heart was drumming so violently I felt ill. I could never do something like. "You'll see." I grinned as I grabbed the wooden wine crate and trash bag."The hell are you up to?" She followed me down toward the beach."You'll see." Whoa." She whispered suddenly."What?" This is amazing." She motioned to the large white volcanic rock formations we were approaching as we got closer to the water."Oh yeah. They're beautiful, aren't they?" I smiled, enjoying watching her sense of wonder. "There's a few I'll show you that I enjoy diving from. And, the beaches on the other side of. ’ ‘What, wait, what, I don’t get it, you’re not, you’re not Sasha?’ he stuttered. I shook my head and squeezed my eyes shut around the tears I could feel were gathering in them. ‘I don’t understand? I’m in the right building, it’s the right day, the right time,’ he mumbled ‘and you look absolutely perfect.’ I looked up in time to see him stare at me with doubt in his eyes, as if to say ‘are you sure you’re not Sasha?’ All of the tension in my body broke in a wave of sadness and I started.