" And deny me your lovable vulnerable innocence? Cindy, I'm not interested in a perfectly packaged plastic ideal. I'm interested in you, red cheeks an...d all. Please be the woman I want, not the woman you think you should be." But, I don't want you to see me as just a little girl."Dan looked at Cindy and started walking around her, touching her hips, back and arms as he circled. Standing close to her back, he took a handful of material from each side of her knit top and stretched the material. I was unfortunately unable to even pierce the shielding of the creature that created the event. Once I recovered from my attempt to scry it and realized that whatever it was had left, I opened a Gateway to the source..."Allambee jumped from his seat and stepped in front of Rayne, "You are reckless and a fool. How could you have gone to the source of the disturbance without first assessing what had caused it... ?" He yelled as he poked Rayne in his chest.Rayne looked down at the old Aborigine. I realized that I had not yet told Kate that I was in love with her. Surely she must have sensed it, but I had not yet spoken the words. Obviously, I was holding that back from her. Jenny was right. I needed to either embrace Kate or release her. What I was doing wasn't right.I got up and went back to work, escaping my thoughts for a few hours, losing track of time. I was surprised when Kate walked in and dropped the car keys on the kitchen counter as she shed her coat."Kate! Back so soon?" I. He was moving on top of her, making small noises, but her mother was silent beneath him. Susan was afraid to stay, afraid of being caught there seeing something strange, something she knew she shouldn’t be seeing. She was more afraid to go, and she stood there with the longing to see her mother’s face, to know that she was okay. He cried out, a low, grunting noise, and stopped moving. She strained to see past him, around him, to glimpse her mother’s face, needing to see her to reassure herself.