I can heal you, you know. With just a touch I can heal you and restore your skin, and end the pain.” Ansah found hope in these words, and the hope w...s sufficient to overcome the pain, at least for a short moment.“Heal me. I beg you. If you aren’t going to kill me, I beg you, make me right again.”“Remember, I said that it was bad news that I could heal you,” said Alice, her blade cutting through flesh and skin. Ansah found the strength to scream once more, his first such cry in some time. “The. She seemed amused. He wanted to ask her what she meant by that, but he felt his eyes getting heavy. It had been a long day, and it had finally caught up with him. He also realized now, looking at her in the warm living room, that she was pretty. And he subtly crossed his legs, with the realization that he might start embarassing himself soon.“I think you need to sleep,” she said, and her voice sounded like it came from far away. He nodded in agreement. She stepped close to him, and took his. Only the outline of her totally nude body as she suddenly leapt into the air, taking form, and then diving into the pool with a grace that was almost Olympian.Mom was standing off to one side and behind me. She's seen this almost ethereal looking nude ghost shimmer into the air, and then into the pool just as I had."Thought you could use these," she said smiling handing me a couple of towels that she had grabbed off the shelf for us which we kept just inside the patio doors leading out. "Have. But since we finished the remodeling, I’ve only done four events with other partners, and I’m working with Ben almost every day. Since you’ve been working so late, he usually wants me to attend his events and he doesn’t introduce me as a planner. I think he wants his guests to think that I’m his date or significant other.”“A good example is a dinner party he had with an old client last week, and he didn’t even try to explain who I was. I think the client saw how much I look like a younger.