The monsters. The things that took Sawyer from me, and from this world. Maybe he’s back in the world of blue skies and airports and laughter. I can ...only hope so. He promised he would never leave me. I haven’t heard the murmurs in a while. It could be days, but I have no way of knowing. My arms are too weak to reach the zipper, and I fear my eyes have dulled too much to look at the sun-touched earth. Maybe they finally did leave me. I can’t blame them, much. All I hear now is the soft wind. Gloria was busy in the kitchen looking at the time. Callie should be home in about forty-five minutes. She felt nervous and still had suspicion that her daughter might be secretly seeing Nathan. She knew the only way to get her daughter away from him was to pretend she was sick like when she had the panic attack. She could just do a fake panic attack. It was a mean and cruel plan, but Gloria only wanted the best for her children. She felt a twinge of guilt thinking about her plan, yet she knew. He saw her body language change as if she were willing it not to cower. "I'm sure you'll have even more when I'm finished talking. Please," she pleaded when he went to interrupt, "let me go first."Luke wondered where she'd begin. His money, and her lack of it. His license. Her late night phone calls?If she had another man, she would have a choice to make. Tell Luke the truth so they could try to work things out, or just tell him she wanted to be with someone else. He didn't want her to stay. " I gotta admit, they did send us a public notice," Kutzley said. "It was even in the Record-Herald. But, you read that notice, and it really doesn't say a thing. There's not a thing in there that says that the snake is living in the sewer system, that the sewer system is part of their critical interest area, what the ramifications of a critical interest area are, or that they were in such a yank." Sounds like the damn government," Milliman said."Then, this notice we got the other day about the.