“I’m sorry but I had to ask. You’re certainly much too young to have this happening. Are you taking any medications that wouldn’t show up on y...ur chart?” the doctor rejoined a conciliatory tone.“No,” Angela responded averting her eyes again.“How about any changes in diet over the past year?”Angela considered this for a moment before answering “No, not really.”“How long have you been married?”“We just celebrated our sixth anniversary.”“OK,” the doctor said pushing away from the desk. “I think. They still appeared to have water and food. We were hovering when I noticed a man and a woman come out of the house, the man had a rifle in his hands.I got on the speaker and said, "Hello, we are not a threat, please don't shoot, would it be all right if I landed and we talked a bit?"The man went in the house and came back out without the rifle and waved us over to an open field. We moved over to the field and landed, after shutting down we all got out. I walked over to the house and shook. "My carsuddenly stopped working. My cellphone is out of power too, so I can'tcontact anyone." Well hop on in the back. You may stay in one of my guest rooms until wecan get this all sorted out," the man said with a smile.I figured this guy must be rich and the fact that he had guest rooms onlyconfirmed it. I had no idea why a rich guy like this would be out in themiddle of nowhere, but the important thing is that I'm getting help.After getting into the back seat, the man in the front started. Wide, deep and turbulent, Amazonia flowed through the jungle like a snake, thick and brown with silt, and was challenging even for adults to ford at any season. But eventually we’d yielded to Hotene’s demands that we come this way.At this point in the season the water flow around my waist thrummed against my body like the wind snapping a flag. As my sister watched anxiously from the bank, I’d crossed once with Hotene, who now sat impatiently against the thick tangled roots of a kapok on the.