At that moment, she heard a loud ?Woosh? sound and suddenly she was being sprayed with water from all sides. Hot water, cold water, soapy water, all ...t once.Kelly immediately realized she was in a car wash and her terror level jumped, but all she could do was panic. She couldn't move, but she could still panic.No sooner did she panic than she was assaulted by the first of the little whippy things that scrub cars clean. They may not be hard or fast enough to damage a car, but the certainly. The trees and brush were colored by the strange light and made to look like hammered pewter, while the grass shone wet and shiny like a rippled surface of water. For a moment before the truck drove into the mist it was both beautiful and dramatic, and then you couldn't see shit. Close to white-out conditions with visibility limited to maybe two or three car-lengths.The old man slapped the hitchhiker on the arm and said. "Damn son, I glad you came. Wish I could let you sleep a bit but I need. OOoOccasionally a tropical storm would disturb the tranquility, the violent winds and rains making it uncomfortable to venture from the safety of the rocky passage, but they were rare. More often warm showers would burst from the cloud cover, soaking me in warm cleansing rain. I actually looked forward to those days, often dancing through the tall grass, my feet barely touching the ground as I my wings grew stronger, my laughing face turned skyward. Sometime during the middle of what I. "Sure, she replied as I walked towards the kitchen. I'm getting a couple drinks together with my back to the patio and suddenly, as I turned around, Lexi was right behind me and we bumped into each other face to face. "Oh hey, I didn't know you were there," I said in an awkward startled manner as we stood still very close together. "I didn't scare you did I?" Lexi asked as she put her left arm around my waist using my back to balance herself with me. "Uh no, no, just weren't expecting you.