White wisps of clouds stretched across a brilliant, golden sun, and a flock of geese soared before the shadowed bellies of these vapors. Where were th...y flying? She mused. Since she'd created the mural, the birds could be flying to whatever destination she cared to imagine, but it was more fun to pretend that they had free will and could come and go when and where they pleased instead of as she dictated. The same, she thought, was true of Tiffany. The locket that the sorceress had given to her. She had been socaring so wonderful trying to act out my fantasies dressing up like ThePrincess from that space wars movie, buying toys; anything to get myattention nothing worked.A loud horn broke my self pity. Where was my long white line? Why isthat truck in front of me? I quickly swerved so did the other truckthankfully both of us chose opposite directions.I was grateful that my exit was only a few miles more, then a few mileson the back country road along the beautiful crystal waters of. #######We kissed passionately at the threshold of my apartment, then again at my bedroom door. His hands were already in my partially unbuttoned blouse, and hitching up my skirt - though they'd already gone farther in the taxi ride home from the play. I had only recently stopped counting the number of dates we'd had, but still knew the number of times we'd made love. Three. Each as or more exciting than the last. Each different and... half-dangerous, skirting the edges of my experience, finding. He wanted her, so he'd been practicing. Another spirit, that he'd met on the subway, had taught him how to manipulate matter. It had been hard at first, but it was getting easier and Ruben was ready to see if he could actually touch Mackenzie. The timing was perfect. She'd been taking these lucid dreaming courses, reading books about it, meditating. If he touched her at just the right time she was sure to think it was all a dream.Smiling slightly, he waited. Soon her eyelids started to twitch,.