<div class="floatleft"><div align="center">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/cdc1/04s7432n614occi4g.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chloe Dawson<br/>  ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾  </span></span></div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… Kimmie comes in all aglow … and immediately shares with me what she has learned … smile at the lessons … Huguette has lept her well ahead , trusting that context will be found and background can be filled in later … and focusing on what Kimmie needs so that her unique Foresight can be most useful to all of us … I share with her some of my mind … what transpired today and my current confusion about tomorrow … maybe she will see if there are enemies involved or simply the typical faculty cliques and camps and all unsure about accepting the new person … what she does not see and I hope she doesn’t even sense I’m holding back is what I know will be happening soon in Rome … that will wait for dinner when Huguette is present to help hold Tangie and Kimme and Ulla calm through the horror …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Let’s head for dinner. Tangie said she’d be there around now and I trust Huguette and Ulla will too.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… We’re first, yet very shortly Huguette followed by the other two come in … Huguette and I make eye contact … can she see it too? … we sit … talk about our day as salads and breads are served … I’m part way into the first one when I feel a nearby expression of intense pain … seize the locket … with Isis helping, we calm Carlotta … what have they done? … oh my no! … Huguette is starting at me … knows what I’m seeing but not seeing herself … I open Insight to her … then we decide to bring the others …<br/><br/>… when we are all together, I show what happened up to now … how Italian immigration cooperated with The Shadow to take her into custody … a plane to somewhere in the deserts of southern Libya or Sudan … where they tied her into a chair and injected her with truth serum and amphetamines … try to build up her terror … and then applied pressure to her hands … that’s the pain I felt and that I do not share with my sisters here … recount only … they question her … I share this with my sisters … The Shadow knows about me and Kimmie … they know of Huguette but by another name … they haven’t connected Tangie except Kimmie had an office visit … Ulla is an unknown … and they’re totally ignorant of what happened in Salem … the conflagration that consumed what we had abandoned is not yet part of their picture … <br/><br/>… we watch as Carlotta spins a story as wild as it is plausible … that leads them to Cuba … a college of medicine in Havana … seeking jobs as laboratory technicians and administrative assistants … they untie her and put her in a cement cell … cuff her hands in front of her and chain one foot to an iron bed … hand her a bottle of water and packet of food …<br/><br/>… a sense that nothing more will happen seems to be true … they will check out her story … and act accordingly … Cuba seems a good choice too … what presence does The Shadow have there? … a mental glance to Kimmie … can she detect anything? … bring the group back up to the room and slowly release each of them from Insight … Huguette the last … ‘Huguette, instruction please soones in how to lie well. I believe I will need the skill sooner rather than later, perhaps as early as tomorrow.’ … and the agenda for my visit to her rooms for tonight is set …<br/><br/>… release her and resume finishing my salad … we were ‘away’ for only a few minutes … the time compression to current amazes me … finish what I will eat of my salad and await the entrée …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Tomorrow I need to go to the University to speak with the research faculty in biochemistry and genetics. Ulla, I believe you’re on the hook to show me around? Tangie, you’re most welcome to come along. And Kimmie and Huguette spend the day together again?”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… nods and agreement around the table … yes, Tangie will come along …<br/><br/>… the entrée is served … a bit of roast chicken with roasted root veggies with potatoes, and a sauteed green that turn out to be kale … cut my chicken in half and give the rest to Kimmie … somehow, Isis doesn’t need protein today … love the feeling of her little spark inside … she was undisturbed by what was happening to Carlotta …</em></span></span><br/>