She began to drift, focusing on the sensations, until she felt his palm against her chin, gently raising her bowed head. He sensed him before her, kneeling before her. Yet, it felt so strange. She was a girl of saturnine beauty, sharp-nosed, with delicate bones that he dreamt of breaking. I planned to surprise my parents and my sister, so I didn't enter the front door but made my way around to the back to attempt to get in through my bedroom window. She seemed relaxed, almost serene, and we chatted as if we hadn't had a chance to talk in ages. And she somehow felt empty and forsaken. He pressed down until he could feel her calcium-starved bones weakening. Her senses were alert to another prescense. He tapped her shoulder. |