Sure enough, it was full score from the start. But then a miracle happened. Judy didn't get the second throw off clean and the pea went way over the t...rget.My insides flared up. It was actually happening. Even though I had completely botched my turn at the throw, Helen had miraculously won the fight. Now it was up to Helen to decide if we were really going to go ahead with it. I glanced at her and she winked. My pulse doubled immediately and I fought hard not to let anything show.Judy didn't. She had on a funky little cap, too. Ben thought the outfit made her look even younger than he did. ‘Well, Mrs. Morris,’ he said as they drove down the driveway, accompanied by the clatter of tin cans the boys had attached to the back of the car. ‘Here we go.’ Nancy laid her head against the car’s headrest and smiled at her new husband. ‘Mrs. Morris,’ she said softly, ‘I do like the sound of that.’ ‘So do I,’ Ben replied. ‘This past year has really been amazing, hasn’t it?’ Nancy said as they. This trains your mind. If you get good, you don't need chants, spells, or anything else to do magic.The gate in Colorado had been dead. It's pattern had not been there. But the FOCUS had been! I just hadn't had any idea of what a gate pattern looked like! Now I had a pattern. I already knew what the focus of the pattern I wanted, was! I could get home!The focus would sort of tune the pattern to a specific place. That was what the visualizations were for. As you built the 'pattern', you also. Pouring myself another glass of liquor, Imomentarily studied its contents before downing it. Once again, mydrinking companion tonight would be my insomnia - and my damn brainrefusing to shut down.Tears welled into my eyes as I thought of her lovely face constantly infront of me, haunting my mind each and every time I would close my eyes.How did my life get so screwed up? I cried to the empty room.Pulling the blanket that had been covering me like a shroud, up over myshoulders and almost to my.