I know things are complicated but if you feel like taking a chance on me, please call me. I have to go and settle things. I don’t know what’s goin... to happen. I’ll miss you.’ She cried. I left and headed back to the house. ————————- ‘So what are you trying to say?’ Linda asked me. We are all assembled in the living room. Everyone else is pale and tears are starting to flow. I looked at them all and take a breath. ‘I’m lost. I don’t feel a connection to any of you. I feel used and taken out of. We dropped at least a 100 feet in an instant, then was flung to the side. I tried to climb above it but the engine tried to stall. The next thing is to try to get under, I began moving lower, my instruments were going haywire I had no idea where or how high I was. Then the think that scares me the most the engine began to cut out . I looked over at Erica who was trying to send out a may day... she was shaking her head … the radio wasn't working. 'Dotty …. I am in trouble …. can't give you. She had made every one of the last thirty–some odd payments and only had three to go before the monster would be paid for. ‘I had car trouble,’ Howard explained. ‘I’m going to town to get my brother to come bail me out.’ ‘I don’t remember seeing a break down on the road. How far have you walked?’ ‘Oh, I was off the highway, a little more than three miles back and another couple of miles down inside the brush.’ ‘Goodness, that’s five miles.’ ‘Yeah, and my feet know it, too. Boots are not good. He was my father. He was the Herceg. He is now dead and I am to take his place. It is the day of my Ascension.It is an awesome and terrifying thing for one so young: I am but fifteen years old. Even though I had been trained for this every day that I can remember I feel the dreaded weight of that responsibility settling on my shoulders like a dark leaden cloak; sometimes I feel like it crushes the breath from my body.Luckily I won't be alone. I won't reach my majority for another two years and.