"I'll lead," she coyly grinned as she pivoted gracefully to face me and placed her right hand on my left shoulder and gently gripped my right thumb in...her left hand.I placed my left hand on her right hip and pulled her towards me. Our bodies were separated by a few inches, but I could feel the heat radiating from her sleek body. She slid her hand down my shoulder and along my arm and gripped my wrist. As we swayed to the music, she pushed my hand lower on her hip until my fingers rested on the. .. places of refuge, should they run into someone. Then the moved into the woods around the mansion, and the light was cut off as trees arched overhead. The going was slower there, and Johnnie Sue lit the lantern, hunching down and striking the match on the zipper of the pants she had put.“What if somebody sees the light?” asked Bernadette.“They’ll just think it’s the ghosts,” whispered Johnnie Sue. She handed Hilda Mae the bag she had been carrying, and it almost fell to the ground as she. "So, Alice, what do you need to know that wasn't in the reports I sent back?" Why, everything, Annie." Alice managed to reply, collecting her thoughts. "You told us WHAT was happening, but not why? Why do girls of 11 and 12 get pregnant? Why do women in their fifties and sixties start having babies again? Why do the teachers who come here... why did YOU give up a career to rusticate in this backwater? Do you have any explanation?" Alice's voice was rising in pitch."Calm down Alice, girl, we can. Their bedroom is at the top of the stairs on the left. They were taking a nap."Tim nodded as they rushed through the front door, already smoldering. They both took the situation in with one quick glance. The lower floor was almost fully engulfed and the stairs felt shaky as they mounted them."No time to wait for a ladder truck," Tim yelled.The house lurched. Both firefighters ignored the warning sign. Carrie placed the flat of her hand against the panels of the first closed door they came to at.