It confused the daylights out of me.Reality in the form of a history test snapped me back a bit. But after it was over I felt the need to unwind. I di...n't because I had an algebra test the next morning, and besides, there weren't any parties that particular night.Suzette homed in on my like a guided missile the moment I showed up with my date at the next party. 'I loved what we did," she said quietly as we stood there surveying the mingling, "and I admit I'm awfully confused." Me, too." The. "Don't let him drink too much at one time." I know how to take care of a horse John Rawlings, ' she replied. "You tend to the man."There wasn't any type of identification on the dead man except a letter addressed to a Sarah Young in Chicago telling of his dissatisfaction with his nomadic ways and a promise to come home; the letter was simply signed Thomas. John buried the man off to the side of the trail and later took the letter to the Sheriff of Santa Maria. They never heard from the woman in. After all, energy is just energy, right? It’s only negative energy to me, get it? To you, it should be just like some big burst of metaphysical adrenaline, y’know?’ Did I mention that Hayley was a witch? A candle-burning, cat-loving, Goddess-worshipping real-life Sabrina? We had met three years earlier while both of us were shopping in the New Age section at the Mallbooks down in Rayford. I was just indulging my curiosity, she saw me looking at a book on witchcraft, took it right out of my hand. The house is going to get pretty noisy before long.’ I had forgotten Savannah was at my side until I heard the small gasp that came from her as I delivered this news. To the table I said, ‘Excuse me’ and for Savannah I offered her first true taste of her new role. ‘You are a dog. You have no business listening in on my conversations. If you want to be heard you will ask permission. Otherwise, you are to remain invisible. You have just earned your first punishment. Now, sit there and keep.