"Talon?" I breathed hesitantly, hoping that his name or my voice would bring a response. But nothing happened; he just hovered a scant inch from the s...pell keeping him imprisoned and let his gaze bore into mine. Trying the link we shared, I found the presence on behind the barrier different, changed. I could tell that the being on the other side was technically the same, but the mind was vastly different. It was as if someone had forced upon him the mindset of a storyline denizen of evil. It. "Mandy! Are you okay?" I'm fine. How are you doing?" Broken leg, broken ankle. I'll be back on my feet in a couple of days." I have to leave tonight," Mandy whispered as she stepped up beside the bed. She lowered her face to his and kissed him passionately. Mayfield wrapped his arms around her and held her to him.Gradually they broke the kiss and Mayfield lay back on the bed. Mandy turned and walked back to the door. She turned the lock."What are you doing?" Mayfield asked as she turned back. Thework wasn't terribly hard and the maids took three or four cigarettebreaks during the day. I was very popular since Brenda put an extrapack of Misty 120s in my purse. Even the maids who weren't regularsmokers were happy to smoke with me when I offered a Misty from myextra pack. They treated me like one of the girls, and I loved that.Near the end of the day on Saturday it got a little uncomfortable assome of the girls were talking about their evening plans. They asked meif I had a date that. "And not in a good way." I know, but if you need it, you need it." the old man said..."Well I need it fifty bucks worth not a hundred," i said while finding two twenty dollar bills and one ten dollar bill in the wad of cash I kept in the front pocket of my jeans. The wad was held together by a strip of rubber from a bicycle inner tube. It was like a super wide rubber band."I knew someone strange would be the one to buy it," He said it looking at the inner tube money clip thingie. and holding.