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the display.
    After pressing a few buttons, she looked back and offered me the phone, shaking her head. "Look, there's nothing. No missed calls, no voicemail. The last call I show from you was yesterday morning. Are you sure you got the right number?"
    "Yes," I cried, perplexed. "I heard your message before I left the voicemail. I know it was yours. What the hell is going on?"
    "Honey, calm down. Sit down and tell me what happened." We both sat on the sofa and she reached for her wine glass. "Here, have some," she offered.
    I took a small sip and set it back on the table. "I lost someone, Mom," I choked. "Tonight. I had a vision, and it was different. Way different. I didn't know what to do... I... Were my visions supposed to change? Is this something you were waiting to tell me because it wasn't supposed to happen until I was older or something?" I was searching. Searching for anything that would make sense of what was happening to me. I wanted her to explain it all to me like she had when I was sixteen. Even though I'd be mad as hell at her for keeping it from me, I'd at least have answers. But looking at her face, I knew she had none. She looked as confused as I did.
    "I don't understand, Cassie. How did it change? What was different about it?"
    I told her everything; the vision of the woman, the car, the two men, and the feelings I got about the man with the strange eyes. I told her about the crash, and how I watched the car steamroll into that pole. And, after I explained to her how helpless I felt seeing that poor man dead in his car, wondering if I could have somehow saved him, I cried. The weight of the night that heaved itself onto my heart unleashed its mass. My mom took me into her arms and held me. I felt like a little girl again, crying over something overwhelmingly horrible. Just like then, I felt like she was the only one who could help me fix things.
    She said nothing while I released all of the guilt inside my head. Tiffany's death found its way back to hauntingly commingle with this latest fatality. Somehow, she knew that I needed to let it all out before we could attempt to piece everything together. As if emptying all of my tears could clean up the chaos inside my head and allow me to see things more clearly. If only it were that easy.
    As my cries turned into whimpers, she gently pulled me from her embrace. Calmly, she said, "It's going to be all right. We're going to get to the bottom of this, okay?" She tilted my chin so that I was looking her straight in the eyes. "Okay, Cassie? We'll figure this out together."
    I nodded and wiped the last of my tears from my face. Mom stood and comfortingly patted me on the shoulder. She picked up her glass of wine and moved towards the dining room table, where the rest of the bottle was sitting. "All right, so, you didn't mention where the Shadows were. Since there seemed to be three different people in this vision, we need to start with where the Shadows were located." She grabbed another glass from the china cabinet, filled both glasses, and started back towards me with them in hand.
    "That's just it, Mom. There were no Shadows this time. That's why I didn't know what to do."
    She stopped walking and stood there staring at me. I got up and took the glasses from her, not wanting her to drop them. This revelation seemed to hit a nerve. Maybe this was the starting point; the key to unlocking it all.
    "What is it, Mom?"
    She sat down next to me and grabbed my hands. "Are you sure there were no Shadows, Cassie? Maybe you missed them. Think hard. They could have been near any of the people in the vision, but they had to have been there." As much as I knew she wanted to comfort me, she couldn't hide the worry in her eyes.
    "No, there were none. I looked for them, but they weren't in that vision." Her concern over the lack of Shadows scared me. I knew that it was one of the blatant differences this vision had to all of my others, but it was nothing compared to the man with