Now, all of you give me a hand. This bear is going to help fund our preparations.”Everyone joined in, helping to remove the bear’s hide as intact ...s possible. When it was done, Noah placed his hand on the hide and tried to seal it in his ring. He had already practiced with it and confirmed that the enhancement jewel had doubled the capacity of the ring, so it could hold twice his weight. He already had some things in there, and was hoping the addition of the hide would just slip under the. ’ ‘No not just a second, now. I have already called the cab.’ ‘Oka-ay’, dad’s loud voice booms from the front of the house. ‘ Let’s go-o! The cab is here.’ Jeff bounds off and heads toward the stairs, yelling back over his shoulder, ‘Be right down, gotta get a book’ Les slouches out of the kitchen. ‘Ya already got a book, numbskull. It’s in your hand.’ ‘Yeah but I don’t wanna finish this one yet, so I want to start another?’ Dad’s voice booms again, really loud this time. ‘Cab’s here!’ Adrift. I entered, and had the option of taking the stairs or the elevator. I chose the stairs, because, I figured, it was only four floors. After the second floor, I wished I had taken the elevator. I made it to room 483, slightly out of breath, to find the door partially open, but with the Do Not Disturb sign on the door. “Hannah?” I called out to the open room. “I'm in here,” she said. I pushed the door open to find her sitting on the bed, wearing one of the hotel bathrobes, designed to look like a. Beth’s hands rested on Maggie’s head and started to move through her hair as she shook her own head from side to side on the pillow.Her hands stopped as quickly as they had started. Beth took a few needed breaths of air.Beth’s eyes opened wide. She breathed hard and thoughts were racing through her head. The head she had just touched was different, the hair, longer and thicker. There were only two women in this house apart from her and this was not Molly.Almost without seeming to pause, she.