Your head is very heavy and is falling forward. Your eyes are closed and you can't open them." Her eyes had already closed and she didn't open them. I...continued the mantra for several minutes. Then I tested Elise's trance by checking her eyes and dropping her arms. She seemed to be in a trance. I looked over at Helene. She was out. I decided to let her sleep and see what happened."Elise, I will count to three and you will wake. When I say sleep, your whole body will become limp and you will go. At so many times in his life he’d have been in Heaven to be able to date even one girl like the ones that he’d gone out with recently. Now, he seemed to be ambivalent and THAT thought scared him a little as he opened the jar of instant and was about to fish out a teaspoonful of the crystals from near the bottom as he thought about the next one of Sylvia’s wiring jobs. It was a long process since he was doing it alone and in chunks that his friend could afford and he always tried hard to get. I wasn't ready for either the noise or the kick.She made me put on the headphones I'd forgotten to wear but the second time I closed my eyes as I pulled the trigger, anticipating the sharp crack and the stiff jolt to my shoulder. I missed the target completely.She had me lying down in the beginning, which she called the prone position. I had to support my upper body on my elbows, with the carry strap ... sorry, I mean sling ... wrapped around my left forearm. It was kind of nifty in a way. He lost that smirk real fast. He's not going to mistreat her ever again. I'd do it again if I had the chance."Al kind a felt sorry for the kid as O'Malley hauled him off to a small room downtown. The kid would probably get the chair for doing something he should get a medal for.Al remembered now why he hated these kinds of cases.Chapter 7: Sometimes Dreams Come True or You Can't Tell a Book by Its CoverShe walked into his office and immediately handed the secretary a "Jackson". She then leaned.