He thought back to his visit to the clinic. Not knowing who the puppet master mentalist was, Jack had to make a hole in his cloak and try to read the ...ind of every single person whose smell his dogs could pick up. He only checked to see if their minds were cloaked, or open to manipulation, just to rule them out. That had taken a considerably smaller effort than actually reading anyone’s mind, but repeating it a hundred times had pretty much left him drained. After he eliminated most of the. Landry checked in oneach of the students to see how they were progressing. After I hadgotten through my reading and passed a brief quiz on it, she instructedme to practice what I had just learned. I looked down at the compact,nervously. Then, after a moment, I picked it up fumbling with it beforegetting it open. Mrs. Landry stood there, watching as I looked into themirror, making a fish face, and brushing along my cheekbones the way thelesson described. "That's pretty good," she said. The man, in the passenger seat looked at me and smiled. Oh, what the hell, I thought."Hi" the man said. "What's a young girl like you doing out here alone in the country?" I was driving with my friend when my car broke down. My friend got a little sick and she is taking a nap behind that tree," I said, pointing to the tree where Prachi slept peacefully. The man strained his neck towards the tree I pointed at, but it was so large that he couldn't see Prachi."You want a ride to a repair shop?" he. "I know," she said."You do?" I must have sounded happy about it."I remember what sex feels like," she said."You got a little tipsy," I tried to explain."Please stop talking," she said."Okay. Yes."She went to the coffee pot and poured herself a cup. Neither of us said anything for the next ten minutes, as she stood and nursed her cup of coffee, leaning against the counter. Finally she got out a box of cereal and poured herself a bowl. She sat down across the table from me and began to eat,.