"What is it?" she asked she placed the pen on the clipboard."It's Healer Arianna! She is in Healer Ivan's room. They need you."Kat ran out of the room... She found her 'soon-to-be' mother in law sitting on an examining table. Ivan was just finishing the exam."What's wrong?" Kat demanded."I told that young medic it would do nothing other than worry you. Healer Ivan just examined me. It is a little late in life for me to be experiencing this so I wanted to have Ivan look at me." Arianna explained. A hurricane, by any one of several names, was the only kind of storm that we could think of that had these characteristics.Well, the storm was over by noon the next day, and let me tell you, all of us animals were happy. Even the pigs, who had been ignoring the worst of the storm, were happy to be moved outside. I supposed that they were getting hungry. Anyway, the dogs were happy to go out with the pigs, and the humans were happy to go out with the dogs.The storm had just played hell with the. . We're going to walk out of here handin hand. You are going to be a very good little girl, and be very quiet,and walk with me to the park. If you do that I'll let you go when we hitthat small grove of trees on the other side. If you don't... If youdon't, and try to run or yell, I'm going to cut that pretty little dressinto shreds and you with it! Understood?" the man said brandishing thelong kitchen knife as he stuffed the money and change into his pocket.Chuck nodded. It was a mile to the. She recognized the two-story house and yard surrounding it. She looked at her legs and realized that her skirt had bunched around her waist. The blanket was lying on the floor. Tom smiled at his sister as she pulled the skirt down, covering herself.Tom opened his door and swung his legs out then went to the rear of the car and helped his dad remove the suitcases. Sally picked up a couple of the packages from the trunk and went into the house where Anne told her to take her things up to her.