“Seth! I hear you! Where are you? Are you alone?” The thoughts and questions crowded in and pushed aside all other sensations. She could hear him ...lainly now, and that was all that mattered to her.The response startled her. “Not, alone, mother, there are several of us following you, besides Seth and me.” Tia’s ‘voice’ was clear, and stronger than Seth’s, and she could sense the relief in it. “Can you use my eyes to see them?”“Tia! But how? How long?” Leana saw One-ear looking her way. "I didn't. This isn't drugs, Clinton. It's magic. My grandmother wasalways talking about hexes and witchcraft, nobody believed her about anyof it but? she told me that if I held a certain talisman she gave me andit was at a... certain spot and an exact time of year, early morning,and I drank alcohol I could make a wish for happiness, or actually inthis case to? take someone's. I didn't think it would work but? yourlife with Kayla, I just wanted that, but I wished for you and I to stillbe close.. "If we heard wrong, this will just end here, but you really sounded sosad. You were crying hard and you kept calling outhername.: Laurie said.Owen looked askance at them and spoke." Christina?" No, Baby mine." Carly answered and nodded as she was joined by Laurie asshe spoke with a soft laugh,"Ellen."As the name sounded, Owen fell back in the chair. He felt as if he hadbeen hit by a lightning strike, and everything went. It was a long and low-slung building with a number of rooms running down a central hallway from the dining area. Some of the rooms did indeed hold stacked beds, or bunks, for more junior workers. As a man increased in seniority and responsibility, he moved from a four-man room to a two-man room, thence to a small single room, and finally into a larger room, although bath facilities were in common.It was in one of the larger rooms that we received our next shock. Charity was explaining how much.