I have no idea how long I was asleep for but I woke suddenly, aware that there was somebody in the room with me. I blinked in the darkness and realise...d there was a figure standing in the doorway. There was a smell of tobacco and brandy.A woman’s voice said, “You looked so peaceful. It almost seemed a shame to disturb you.”I realised it was Gloria. Startled, I sat up and pulled the sheets up around me.“Such modesty. I thought you might like some company. It must be lonely up here.”“No, it’s all. They were up and getting ready to drive to Pueblo to catch the CIA jet back to Tennessee.With my increasing abilities, it was not difficult to do; so I focused on Anna, and tapped her on her mental shoulder to let her know I was there."Good morning, Beautiful!" I thought to Anna."You always say that when you know I can't get to you!" she thought back, laughing."What's wrong?"I asked, sensing her melancholy mood."Oh. I always feel sad when I have to leave Twin Springs. Especially if I don't have. . The former mentioned black suited, bald man appeared in her Pre Core school and picked her out in the middle of class against the objections of her confused teacher. Even her school principal, who everyone said to be at the incredible Core Breaker level, when he heard that some stranger showed up and, in a manner that more resembled a broad daylight “kidnapping”, took one of his school’s student, when trying to stop the black suited man, by a mere glance his expression turned pale and he. There was the heavy drone of traffic. She heard a far away police siren.And she knew.She knew that if she would step into the well of those revolving doors now and walk out into the rain, she would kill herself. Not in the spectacular sense of heroic suicide. Just in the smothering, anonymous sense of giving up the last remnants of a life that ought to be hers. She would kill herself in the cowardly sense of letting her life slide slowly and definitely out of her hands.The pale woman waiting.
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