“The point is, because I was the last on, I ended up in the worst spot at the far rear but, as you might have heard from your mother, it turned out to be the best spot, because we in the back were spared. Fourteen people died that day. Many by scalding. That was when I started hearing the voices.” “You hadn’t before?” “No. Dreams and feelings and such, I was used to all that. But not the actual voices of spirits. Not till that day. I think I was brought closer to the other side, I don’t know.” “You never told me this.”
