<em>“It sounded like me…your desi…,” </em>her voice trailed off quickly, suddenly aware of just how closely she was standing to him.  She could feel the heat of his body against her, the steady rhythm of his heart, the weight of his arm draped across her shoulders.  He stretched, breaking the contact and she forced herself to move away.  She turned away from him facing the house, bowing her head down so that her silky white hair fell forward obscuring her face from his view.  She closed her eyes, forcing herself to breathe deeply, struggling to regain her self control and focus on the task at hand.  She was just starting to compose herself when she felt the caress of his soft lips against hers.  She gasped, jerking her head up and realized that it was only a memory.  He was still standing behind her where he had been a moment before.<br/><br/>She turned to look at him, her arms crossed in front of her as she rocked back and forth on the heels of her boots.<em>“I haven’t tried to make contact with anything since we got here.  I was planning on starting with the finger you found since children are normally the easiest to make contact with.  Their understanding of a situation isn’t always the greatest, but I have found that it often makes a good starting place.  A small voice appeared in my head the minute I thought about making contact.  It didn’t wait for me to initiate anything.  It sounded like a small child, like a little girl actually, but I’m really not sure what it was.  It was calling to me by name, asking me to come find it, and telling me to hurry.  The voice was inside my head, but sounded like it was coming from somewhere under the house.  I’m not sure if it’s really the owner of the finger, but if it’s not then it seemed to know I was going to try to contact the owner.  The timing was just too precise.  It didn’t really feel hostile, but as we have seen before these things can be very deceptive.  I think that there might be something else here as well.  When I first got here, when I was driving up; there was this….aura like thing…it seemed to be centered on this house, but it was spreading over the whole neighborhood.”</em>