’ ‘Well, this is a lot different. If I hire you, you’ll get your fill of working on machinery. Some of it, you will have never seen before. Some...of it will be so old, it might not have a manual to follow. You’ll have to figure it out from what the people on the floor tell you, and what your know-how tells you. That’s the fun part of the job,’ I said with a smile. ‘I really want this job, Mr. Copely. I can’t think of anything I’d rather do than work on these machines. I’m sure I can do a great. Sometimes he’s a little too protective if you know what I mean. I mean, me and Monica stay together, and we can take care of ourselves. A girl likes to spread her wings for the admiring males around her sometimes and doesn’t need an overprotective Little Brother around all the time.Anyway, Eric had gotten his driver’s license when he turned 16 and the use of the second family car. Dad’s old red Cameo to drive us around in. When he turned 18 was when Mom had what me and Monica called her. She could leave Gynt now. The world seemed to open up to her again, her plans to go to Solveig no longer seemed impossible. Her mother and Poe could look after her little one, and she could be a free woman again!Whatever had been the demon's purpose for imprisoning the village, and taking so many people, perhaps it was now accomplished, and Lilith would no longer trouble them.Madeleine burst out of her room, desperate to tell her mother, to tell the others.Pamela, Poe and Mrs Beale were already. Still, it wasn’t enough that I was going to put them back on. I took them to the nurse’s station to ask what they suggested. They just took them and said they would put them through the sterilizer to kill off the bacteria, and maybe fungus, that was causing the nasty smell.Why didn’t I think of that? I could have zapped all of the gunk and just washed them off.As I was heading back to my room, I noticed that I started feeling a bit like I had the day I got struck by lightning. I shrugged it off.