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reach out for
Lianna-a corner of blackness she could usually slip through...
    Then, something started to happen.
    Around the edges of the black, she stared to
feel colors and sounds. She could never pinpoint which of her
senses she was using-it was all of them, and none.
    January focused harder and grabbed onto the
snippets of color and sound.
    "Lianna, is that you?"
    She felt a moaning and then crying. Still,
Lianna was not appearing to her. January's forehead grew hot.
    What is happening? she felt the girl say,
Who are you?
    "Lianna, my name is January and I'm here to
help find you and bring you home. Can you tell me if you're
alright?"
    Y-y-yes, I think so. My head hurts really bad
and it's dark here.
    The crying continued.
    Oh God! Please help me! I don't know how
you're doing this but if you can hear me, please come find me! I'm
so scared! Oh no, he's coming again! I can hear him! Hurry!
    Then the connection was gone.
    January stood up from the bed, her head
spinning. She opened the door to the bedroom.
    The Morgans were sitting in the little alcove at
the top of the stairs, just outside Lianna's room. They were
holding hands. Agent Talbot was biting her manicured nails and
Agent Sterling was leaning against the wall.
    "She's alive!" January told them.

Chapter Eight
    "DID YOU get any idea of where she is?" Agent
Sterling was pacing back and forth in front of the living room
sofa, where January was seated with a cup of hot tea. It was the
first time she had seen him excited about anything.
    January shook her head. "No. It took everything
I had just to get through to her. She wouldn't appear to me; that's
how I knew something was different. It's harder to reach a person
who is still alive." She glanced up at the Morgans. Mrs. Morgan was
still wiping away tears of joy and relief. When January had come
out of Lianna's bedroom with her announcement, she had collapsed in
her husband's arms.
    "Tell me, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan," January said,
"Is Lianna an especially 'sensitive' person?"
    The Morgans looked at each other. "What do you
mean?" Mr. Morgan said.
    "Well, I'm not sure, exactly. Does she, maybe,
know things that other people don't? Or, does she seem especially
intuitive; almost like she can read your mind?"
    Mrs. Morgan furrowed her brow. "Yes, come to
think of it. She has always been very... I don't know, I guess perceptive is the word. Ever since she was a child. She
always seems to know the right thing to say." She laughed. "And we
always joke about how much she loves to finish people's sentences
for them." She looked up at January with a sad smile. "We just
figured she was smart and kind. Could there be something else?"
    "She may have a gift, like I do," said January.
"The few times that I have been able to find people who are still
alive, it was because they had abilities similar to mine. It's just
that not all of them knew it."
    Mr. Morgan sat down on the couch. "I can't
believe it," he said. "It's almost too much to think about." He
shook his head and looked up. "I just want her back safely."
    "Can you try to contact her again?" Agent Talbot
asked.
    "Yes, of course," January said. "But it's
actually going to be difficult to find her because she is
alive."
    "What do you mean?" Mr. Morgan said.
    January tried to explain. "Dead people have
certain senses that we don't have. They're not tied to their bodies
anymore, and they see things in ways that we can't. Lianna is still
alive, thankfully, but she can only use what her regular five
senses tell her. And she's scared, and in pain. It's going to be
hard for her to tell me anything."
    The Morgans exchanged a worried glance.
    "But I will try. I will use every last ounce of
strength I have to find her. The agents here might have to do the
rest."
    "Of course," Mrs. Morgan said. "If there is
anything we can do to help you, please, let us know." She clasped
her hands together. "We are so grateful to you already. It's been
so hard, not even knowing if she was alive."
    January