She is there suddenly, crouching beside a bush on the bank, with dark eyes locked onto his, and in that moment his world stops. Before he can process ...he meaning of this strange event, she turns and is gone, as quickly as she had appeared. He is not the sort to imagine strange things, nor is he the sort to waste time on analysis of that which can not be understood. He continues on his way, navigating the slow waters which take him downstream. It is not till another bend is rounded that he. She was again smirking as I looked into the place in my head. I told it to block me from any of the pain she tried to cause me as I worked closer to getting off. Then I made it go to green. I knew, from somewhere deep inside the place in my head itself, that the shield would come on automatically to protect me from death. Otherwise it would let me pulse whenever I had sucked in more energy than I could hold, or as much as I could safely release in this chamber without exceeding what it could. Embarrassed even more than I already was, I had to walk to the cashier and get tokens to pay with. I quickly got back in the booth (the same one I went in my first attempt) and closed the door behind me.The booth had a chair bored to the floor 3 feet in front of the TV screen. There was a coin receptacle to the right of the screen and a button below it. There was also a box of tissues on top of the TV and a partially filled garbage can underneath it, and I easily guess what that was for. I sat. We pulled into the drive just minutes ahead of my sister. My niece Sharon exclaimed as we walked in the door “Took you guys long enough”. “Well,” I said pointing at Morgan’s bag “sometimes they just don’t know what they want”. “But,” I thought, smiling to myself “sometimes they know exactly what they want, and aren’t afraid to get it”. Rachel and Morgan just laughed and headed for the girls’ bedroom. The weekend went well. For the most part we just hung around the house relaxing together and.