But one day when I was at home as not it was a regular thing for me to stay at home to do to more of it I would skip college as often as I could and m... mom understood that I am missing college for what reason so that day after lunch she asked me to close doors and sleep next to her so that we can take some rest which I did and before sleeping she asked me to put all the curtains down and switch on the light which I did and slept besides her but as it was day time I was not getting courage to do. ’ ‘How was your trip, dear?’ ‘Pretty ordinary. Just the normal phsyco-babble convention crap.’ God, men. ‘Who was there? Meet with anyone interesting?’ ‘Most were stuffy, but yes. The majority of speakers droned on about this recycled theory or that. This one dude was studying hypnotism for clinical applications.’ Carl began gently pulling on her toes. One of them popped. ‘Does that shit really work?’ ‘For most people, to varying degrees. About one in five won’t hypnotize no matter what you, or. My fire was just getting noticeable when two men wandered nonchalantly out of the woods about two hundred yards away, each leading a horse with bags strapped on its back over the saddle. The way the horses were moving, I could tell the bags were extremely light--probably pine needles or moss intended to make the men appear to be merchants.The man closest to me was on this side of his horse. The second man was between the horses, using the closest horse as a shield trying unsuccessfully to hide. Thenshe heard the door open. She looked up to a triumphant looking Bryce. Hesaid with a weird grin, "I got it." He slammed something down on thetable and exclaimed, "you don't have to worry about that squirrelscaring you ever again, babe. I scorched it for you."With horror Pamela looked at the thing on the table and barely managedto recognize the blackened thing as a dead squirrel. She was repulsed atLightning. How could he do such a thing? I didn't even need to nudgeher, as she now realized.