"Allie, I'm fine, trust me. But I am starving like you wouldn't believe." John, go get some more sleep alright."A sense of sadness and concern coursed...through me. That puzzled me because I was not feeling like that at the moment. I gazed into Alice's eyes and the emotions I felt hit me even stronger.It can't be, I thought as I could read the emotions hiding behind her stare. It's impossible, no one can read another person like this. Again that question came up. What is happening to me?I plopped. I put down my folder and headed around back, stepping out into the heat of the late morning. I walked toward the back, wondering what I could say, what my excuse would be, what I would do if she freaked out. As I saw Jill I spoke out, ‘hey, Jill, I’m home!’ She turned, putting her book down splayed open. I couldn’t see her eyes behind her sunglasses, but her face spread into a big smile as she looked over her shoulder and let out a friendly, ‘Hey!’ ‘This is a surprise! I hope you don’t mind we. .. But you're probably bored by all that." Not at all! I don't know much of anything about Shady Pines. Are there separate neighborhoods for houses and others for dining halls and stuff?" Oh, sure ... I should bring you a map some time. There are two major groups of houses and apartments..."She described more detail of her life, and it didn't sound artificial any more. Bill found he had lots of questions, and Alison seemed happy to answer them all.After a while she looked at her watch. "I have. I think we could do that, but why the hurry?”“Because there would be more of your kind here, when the other messengers show up,” said Joulnar.“Of course, that would be much better for all of us to be here rather than just one man. It would be more of a shock to them and their reaction would be more noticeable,” said Olnafot.Tovar said then, “We would all be alert to see the reaction of the new messengers in case they did not want to show you Bob. We might see something you would not just by.