Nothing happened! I blinked my eyes yet darkness remained. I couldn’t move. I was strapped down. I felt a warm rush in my arm and then consciousness...escaped me. Pain and more pain is what my brain told me as I awoke from my induced slumber. Every breath I took shot sharp and jagged jabs throughout my body. My eyes, what happened to my eyes? I wondered as I recalled opening them without my sight. A voice rang through my head, stay still, you’ve been in an accident. I remember hearing this. “If ... yeah. If you think it’s best, then that’s fine.” She did smile, but offered no input other than to acquiesce.Her lack of certainty got my attention. “Didn’t Daniel and you talk things over before taking any action?”Abby laughed. Her smile was not a happy one, but her laugh made her message just as clear as her words. “Daniel never asked things, Mark. He just told me what I was going to do and then gave me very little time to comply.” She shook her head as she said that, as if she was. ? Still he couldn?t keep the annoyance from showing inhis voice. Sam tried to keep himself from sounding affronted, but he wasaffronted that they were going to call him.?Well we got a few call ins. We are going to need you to come in early,?The voice didn?t sound as if it was very concerned about his lack ofsleep. Sam knew that he could tell him where to go and how to get there.But, that would be remembered. People were spiteful little things whenyou got right down to it. And the memory would. Just as I was beginning to worry, she showed up for breakfast looking absolutely radiant and happy.I was glad when Denise returned, if for no other reason than to restrain Dolly's strange behavior. Now, with the girl here to disrupt the routine further, I was seriously considering a vacation by visiting my own home and farm lands. The two women and the girl were starting to get together frequently in the sitting room to discuss something or other. I had the distressing feeling that I was going.