It was empty. We had to lead our horses carefully through the trees, but even so, we made very good time, exiting the vale before lunchtime.The north ...end of the vale was a narrow defile, walls of fine stone reaching up high over our heads on either side. Blaster looked distinctly uncomfortable."Worried about ambushes?" I asked him, "It doesn't seem to be our enemies style." No, not that," he replied. "I recognize this place. I haven't been here in years, though, since training. I used to come. After I went to bed, I continued thinking about her until I fell asleep. Then she appeared to me in the dream. Maybe this means that if we are thinking seriously about someone before we fall asleep, we may dream about them." And as I recall, I was thinking about my dad that night he later appeared in a dream to tell me he was worried about me. But just because I thought about him doesn't explain his prophetic warning."I responded, "Maybe you're right. Our spirits somehow connect with our. ?She looked at me with a perplexed look, but nodded and went into the bedroom. I went and got our son ready and told him to go to the van, that I was taking him to school today.When I went back to the bedroom I found that Christie had found the bag and had followed my instructions. She was sitting on the edge of the bed with the hospital straps on her wrists and ankles. Even better, when I opened her robe I saw that she had slipped her vibrator on, the straps around her waist and between her. We also hoped we wouldn’t get into trouble.”I quickly said, “You aren’t in trouble, at least as far as I’m concerned.”Both Carol and Todd visibly relaxed a little.Sensing that I was just fine with what they were doing, Todd strode forward one more time. “There is a slight problem that we’re hoping you could help us with in regard to Peter and Brit.”I nodded, “Sure, if I can.”Todd said, “Oh, you can, but ‘Will you?’ is the question. You see besides Brit there’s also Mindy.”“Mindy?”“Mindy. M. I..