She couldn't see herself in a church, bowing in front of the altar, while a robed priest droned on in Latin."Madam?" Sure," Benin replied, "by all mea...s. Send a message to my 'husband'"'Oz' woke with a start. The sun filtered into the gully sending bright gold shafts of light onto the sparkling, clear waters of the stream. Catalina stirred beside him. She wiped her face on his jacket before looking up, bleary-eyed and smiling."It's morning?" she said. 'Oz' nodded. "We survived!" she added. John. She started by saying do you remember when I first started working at Jilly's ? I said yeah you started as a hostess and you always wore short skirts, your legs looked so good in pantyhose. She said yeah it's a health code all female employees are required to wear hose. I said I bet it helped with tips too. She said all the female servers wore shinny Leggs brand pantyhose and it definitely helps with tips. I asked her what happened ? She said oh yeah I got off topic, well you remember Tim. I. Often we manipulate them, as I had to do with Nan. That is why she ended up living with my niece, although Nan never knew that it was planned in advance. That has never happened before because Nan became like family to me. I loved her like one of my own children so she was given special treatment." How did you come to form this group? I gather from everything you say that you are the head of it." Before I explain how, I have to explain myself. I have always been curious about what makes humans. .take it." The words fell like lead on my ears, muffled as if they had come from some other room. Some other mouth than mine.Craig permitted himself a smile then, as I'd seen on his face before when a business deal went well. "Excellent. Bring your sister's insurance information to me tomorrow, so we can begin the transfers. Then come over to my desk and bend over it, head on your arms."His prosaic tone caught me off guard. I was still in the state of surreal disconnection from the events, head.