She was Dawn. She was MY Dawn. She was perfect in every way. And somehow, I knew this wasn't her fault.It was Jaron's fault. He was the seducer. He wa... the destroyer. He deserved to DIE."WHERE IS HE?" I howled again. Look up "apoplectic" in the dictionary. You'll find a picture of my face there.Carli's mouth was open as she tried to process my request. While still in a state of shock, she mumbled a bit before finally grunting, "Haste Street just past Shattuck." It took her a few more blinks. "They just pop out of existence, do they?" You ought not to make the mistake of thinking there is no scientific basisfor any of this." She reaches into her own jacket and presses a slimpaperback into my hand. "Open your mind, Ruth Pattison. If not to us, thento the message in here." I was wondering when we'd get to your sacred texts." It is the truth. Of course it is sacred."She walks back to the house. I follow her as far as the door, where there'senough light for me to peer at the book's. The Leedei leaned forward in a nodding fashion and his voice sounded as if he was under a lot of strain.“Young Roy Masters. I was able to extract the Smilak from your body before it made its way to your spinal cord, they are good but so are we Leedei. I am sorry for all the pain and discomfort.”Roy pulled his TKU. “Never mind the discomfort, Sir. I am making sure these cursed Kermac swallow a pill of my own.”The teacher shook his head. “No young Roy, don’t show them yet. There is more to this. What? I don’t see nothing, Zeke. Where?”“Over there, Moose. See it?”The two men staggered slowly toward the girl, making slow circles around the strange thing on the sawhorse, pointing at her and frowning and belching and spitting and poking her with the stick-canes they both carried.Julie kept silent. She was terrified!“Is this thing real?”“I dunno,” Moose burped.Zeke raised his cane and jabbed the girl hard in her tummy.“Oof! Ouch! Don’t hurt me!” Julie gasped weakly.Zeke jumped backward,.