Whatever their reasons, I was going to have to make thebest of things. I was determined that I was not going to let thistransformation break me."And t...at attempt would start tomorrow," I said to myself, "and thatmeans trying to sleep tonight."I was kinda surprised how quickly I fell asleep. I had expected that thechanges in my body would be so upsetting that I would find it difficultto get comfortable, but maybe the spell that had changed me took energyfrom me, because I had fallen asleep. " Direct conversion of energy into matter. Is that what you mean?" That's exactly what I mean. It's just not possible, at least with our tech..." Exactly, but this isn't our technology. She's alien. We have only just begun to communicate. Sometimes I can say something to her, and she seems to easily understand, other times, well... It's the same way, or maybe worse, when she tries to talk to me. At times, the concepts are clear, other times, I know my mind is mistranslating."It's like something. We thanked them for their help and told them if they were ever in Oregon to look us up. All of them left, when we stopped for our nooning, on good terms.Mark says we are only a week or a little more to where we'll cross the South Platte, and move north to follow the North Platte. He told us of a very nice place to lay over for a couple of days and allow the cattle to recover from their travels. It would also be a great place to repair any damage to our wagons. The name of the place is Ash. I am coming for you. Soon our hearts will beat as one, kitty cat.’ Who calls you kitty cat?”Abbey scanned the room, hoping to identify a suspect. “How did they know? Are they here right now, looking at me in my costume?”As Will checked his phone and headed backstage, he was distracted by the commotion at Hayes’s table.“We should call the police on this creep,” Glimmer said.“You know the cops won’t do anything,” Hayes asserted. Abbey trembled. “I don’t know what to do. I should go home, but I.