This was inside, this unnamable sense of something. Yet even as she dipped the water bucket into the cool, clear spring, she knew she wanted to look b...ack and study the strangeness. The air of the shelter intrigued her. With her thoughts continuing to drift around this new puzzle, she lifted the wooden bucket back up. She'd learned to pull the weight with her arms and shoulders, saving the muscles of her back. Walking back towards the shelter, Mary firmed her decision. She would not run from. Butit was so hard.It was Kath who saved my sanity. She'd come over whenever she had a freeday or afternoon, and we'd often take the kids to the zoo or the park orto the pool. She was an absolutely wonderful auntie, playing games withthe kids while I got laundry and cleaning done, and babysitting so Icould do some grocery shopping. Julia came to the house once in a whiletoo, but the kids definitely loved Auntie Kath best. They would point tothe framed picture of my friend and me from our dance. ." Later Jane," he said, putting a touch of Master in his voice."Yes Master," she responded automatically.He left and went to his boss' office."Something's come up and I have to leave," he said. He wasn't particularly apologetic.She looked up and said, "Ken, you've been out for several days now. Is there something going on?"Like he was going to tell her. "No, but I have some pressing business to deal with today - perhaps tomorrow as well."She sighed. "Ken, you know that we're short on overhead. " We have a surveillance camera?" Dannie asked, stunned."It's not on the walls. We use magic. I don't want any punk-ass kiddestroying it. Anyway, I'm giving it to you. I've gotta get more eye ofnewt. And this time, I think I'll go to Marietta, Georgia, in theconventional, non-magical manner." And with that, the Wizard left.With the Wizard gone, Dannie studied the tape alone. It started witha man in his thirties entering the shop. He had blond hair, blue eyes, andseveral freckles on his face..