“Dean, I’m sorry I woke you up early.” She wasn’t looking me in the eye. Zoë could stare down a charging rhino.“S’OK, I wasn’t having a...particularly good dream anyways,” I calculated, “Nightmare?”“Really bad,” She nodded.“Well, it’s over now.” I shrugged offering support. I gave her a hug. I didn’t realize I had reached around her until I squeezed her against me. This was not like us. She squeezed my guts back.“Don’t be a--” She cut herself off.“Oh! Cute!” And we both froze to hear our mother.. We'll mix some Halloween type songstogether with some newer pieces."There was some murmuring from the class as some of the students becameexcited, some were indifferent about the performance, and some of us -primarily me - wanted to transfer into any other class. I knew that Mr.Benson would try to promote me as one of the talents in the group, but Iwas still opposed to that idea. Especially since the concert would occurthe week after I performed for the school as Sarah."That gives us four weeks. They said it was suicide for anyone to be outside the sonic barrier, a lot of the animals out here were predators. My mom and dad had been killed when they made one of the plasma bombs for the southern colony to large. I was ten then and left on my own.I turned and stood as I started for the tree trunk. I was seventeen now and made my living bringing animals and plants back for the zoologists. I slipped around the tree and headed out on another branch. I used a vine to climb up a couple of. ********** James smiled, Sharon was back to her old normal self. Patrick had performed a miracle, at least to James it seemed that way. Except James and his wife noticed that as Sharon got better, she also seemed to be more nervous, agitated, anxious… it was time for another talk. As Sharon stepped into the den, James pointed once more to the seat across from him. Sharon looked puzzled, but happily sat down and asked, ‘What’s going on, James?’ Not looking overly concerned, he replied, ‘You,.