”“I like to think that your time being held captive with Allison was your gestation time, a real short nine months,” she joked. “Her rescue wa... your pains of labour, and Dan carrying her out of that horrible building, her delivery.”“Thank you, thank you for those kind words. The three of us have sort of joked around, pretending to be Mom, Dad, and Daughter. I told her we are a family when we’re together no matter what our relationship is.”“Well now you three can be a family for real,” Trudy. Do you remember, John, how saidyou would 'do whatever it takes' to work here at The Women's Place?"When Ms. Jennifer called me John again, after being Beth for so long, itfelt weird and it also felt offensive to me. NO, I thought, I have Earnedthe right to be Beth and that is who I am going to be. (I kind ofsurprised myself at having confidence in who I was, that is not somethingI've really ever had or felt)."Yes I remember Ma'am, I will do whatever it takes to work here and helpthese. They will prepare food for themselves, rest and they will leave here early in the morning”I amazed why I have not waken up by all that noises and sounds, perhaps because I was very tired climbing all the mountains around. Now I could see them from a very little opening between the wood plates of the wall. There were three big Tableland faced Afghans and 5 donkeys full of opium loads perhaps. One of them had a Kelashinkof pointing to 2 shepherds and the older’s wife. Their hands and legs were. " She reaches out and a divine light flows from Khalus, into her hand. Khalus falls to one knee as his strength is drained. "Goodbye, my son." The last words Khalus hears his mother speak before he is suddenly thrown through time and space.Khalus tumbles perilously though a tunnel of light, his clothes ripping to shreds from the sheer force. It keeps going for what feels like an eternity before he suddenly slams into a hard surface. As the light dissipates, Khalus lays there for a moment, his.