“What were you working on?” Nikki asked. “We rang the doorbell twice”.“Sorry about that” I said, as I turned and placed her coat into the ...loset, “I was testing some additions I made to the surveillance system”.“Again?” she asked. “You’re always adding more to that thing. What now?”“Come and see” I said.Nikki and Lydia followed me into my bedroom where the glow of the computer screen showed areas of every room in the house, the entry, and the sides and back of the home exterior, and of the. So I liked to think, but in truth their gazes smothered all voice but a whisper.Even the writing of this widens the hole in this maskI just hope the faces that it draws don't smother this.For so long under those masks not even I could see clearly through the gapsNow with the rubble behind me, I looked upon myself.I didn't understand what I saw, for what I thought was myself was strewn around meagain the world lost its lustre.A feather drifts on the wind and it is beautiful.It lands near a pond. "Okay, Matthew would you like to stay with us for a short while?" she enquired. "It'll mean two of you girls having to share a room though." That's okay," chipped in Jo, the tomboy, who'd tagged onto the conversation, the lovely little dark-skinned Beth close at her shoulder.The other sisters looked at Jo in surprise as if her words were totally out-of-character. Evidently Matthew's charm had melted a stubborn heart. All eyes looked his way, "Say you'll stay, Matthew," entreated Amy.He smiled,. I could see that she had lost complete control of her seeking ability, and it was rapidly draining energy from her body. As I put my shield back up, I kept a big batch of the energy colors the seeker part of her wanted. When I turned onto a side street, I let the seeker’s tendrils grab it again, and I closed off the feed to it from my shield. I slowed down as I watched the energy pull back toward her before it mentally bitch-slapped her.I hope she has the best possible car insurance. She just.