A pair of children, a boy and a girl in their early teens, racing bicycles down a dirt road between some trees. I could almost feel the breeze on my s...oulders and shivered just a little. You could feel the raw determination radiating from each of them, their faces fierce, hair streaming behind them. They were neck and neck and neither one of them was going to concede victory to the other. The vitality of the painting took my breath away. When I forced myself to look away, the room seemed more. Know... I..." Kristy, are you feeling all right?"The strange sensation swept over her more powerfully now. Her eyes were open but they were glazed as her mind was rapidly surrendering to this... what?Try as she might, Kristy seemed unable to focus either her eyes or attention on anything other than the feeling that she was no longer in control, that she was being guided, forced to submit -- but to what?The words came slowly and without feeling as if her thoughts were totally elsewhere."I'm.... Now here was something I could understand and appreciate. Looking out the drug store window, I kept watching Vern Sharp standing on the corner across the street from us, hawking his wares.Dan Houston, our local " town drunk" walked up to Vern, bought three bottles and scurried away. Others would stop, buy a bottle or two, self-consciously glance across the street at the drug store and go on about their affairs. Vern Sharp was doing a land office business. But then, whenever a person caters to. ‘Have a good trip?’ Dev grinned. ‘Oh Ted, if you only knew. Hold on a minute while I wake up my wife and tell her we’re home, been a long day.’ Ted looked surprised, ‘Your wife…Mr. Morris? Sounds like you did have an interesting trip this time.’ That was putting it mildly, but Dev was too tired to care. With a gentle touch, he shook Reni awake and smiled at her. ‘Hey sleepy, we’re home, time to get up and go up to the condo…’ She nodded. ‘Hmm, sorry I fell asleep on you.’ The small diamond ring.