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."That Dr.Winfield is so young-I hope he's not too inexperienced."Last chance.Take it or lose it."Uh, it went fine," Hannah said weakly."That's good.There's chicken in the crockpot.I'll be out in a little while;I just want to finish this.""Okay.Great.Thanks." Hannah turned and stumbled out, completely frustratedwith herself.You know Mom won't really be awful, she scoldedherself as she fished a piece of chicken out of the crockpot.So tell her.Orcall Chess and tell her.They'll make things better.They'll tell you howimpossible all this stuff about vampires and past lives is.Yes, andthat's the problem.Hannah sat frozen, holding a fork with a bite of chickenon it motionless in front of her.I don't believe in vampires or reincarnation.But I know what I saw.I knowthings about Hana., things that weren't even in the story I told Paul.Iknow she wore a tunic and leggings of roe deer hide.I know she ate wildcattle and wild boar and salmon and hazel nuts.I know she made tools out ofelk antler and deer bone and flint.God, I could pick up a flint cobbleand knock off a set of blades and scrapers right now.I know I could.I canfeel how to in my hands.She put the fork down and looked at her hands.They were shaking slightly.And I know she had a beautiful singing voice, a voice like crystal.Like the crystal voice in my mind.Page 34 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlSo what do I do when they tell me it's impossible? Argue with them? Then I'llreally be crazy, like those people in institutions who think they're Napoleonor Cleopatra.God, I hope I haven't been Cleopatra.Half laughing and half crying, she put her face in her hands.And what about him?The blond stranger with the bottomless eyes.The guy Hana didn't have a namefor, but Hannah knew as Thierry.If the rest of it is real, what about him?He's the one I'm afraid of, Hannah thought.But he didn't seem so bad.Dangerous, but not evil.So why do I think of him as evil?And why do I want him anyway?Because she did want him.She remembered the feelings of Hana standing nextto the stranger in the moonlight.Confusion.fear.and attraction.That magnetism between them.The extraordinary things that happened when hetouched her hand.He came to the Three Rivers and turned her life upside down.The ThreeRivers.Oh, God-why didn't I think of that before? The note.One of the notessaid "Remember the Three Rivers."Okay.So I've remembered it.So what now?She had no idea.Maybe she was supposed to understand everything now, andknow what to do.but she didn't.She was more confused than ever.Of course, a tiny voice like a cool dark wind in her brain said, you didn'tremember all of it yet.Did you? Paul woke you up before you got to the end.Shut up, Hannah told the voice.But she couldn't stop thinking.All night she was restless, moving from oneroom to another, avoiding her mother's questions.And even after her motherwent to bed, Hannah found herself wandering aimlessly through the house,straightening things, picking up books and putting them down again.I've got to sleep.That's the only thing that will help me feel better, shethought.But she couldn't make herself sit, much less lie down.Maybe I need some air.It was a strange thought.She'd never actually felt the need to go outsidefor the sole purpose of breathing fresh air-in Montana you did that all daylong.But there was something pulling at her, drawing her to go outside.It waslike a compulsion and she couldn't resist.I'll just go on the back porch.Of course there's nothing to be scared of outthere.And if I go outside, then I'll prove there isn't, and then I can go tosleep.Page 35 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlWithout stopping to consider the logic of this, she opened the back door.It was a beautiful night.The moon threw a silver glow over everything andthe horizon seemed very far away.Hannah's backyard blended into the wildbluestem and pine grass of the prairie.The wind carried the clean pungentsmell of sage
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