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house years ago. As the beach air blew over her, she gave a shiver, and she rubbed her ear. It was wet. She looked around. She could see for several yards, and there was no one. There were no new footprints. The old ones from the earlier picnickers were half full of blowing sand.

Chapter Four
    If her sleeping habits were bad before, now she kissed her bed goodbye. She huddled over pots of coffee and lost track of time. She refused to walk the beach, and she found a couple of dried up sandwiches, but she did not know when she had ate last. So…she was actually going nuts, crazy, what were all the technical terms?
    She logged onto her laptop to find out what day it was and what time it was. Okay, Tuesday, and only two in the afternoon. She took a quick shower, dressed comfortably in jeans and a loose shirt, and took off for town.
    She made a pass by the University, it was a small one, and then found an entrance for the guest parking for her Jeep. She got out and grabbed a backpack to carry as she walked up towards a large building. Stopping the first guy she saw, she asked for the location of the library. He pointed it out, and no one paid any attention to another student looking for research material. That is, except for the ones who did a double take and smiled too often at her.
    She was left alone except for a couple of interested jocks, but she blew them off and found the Medical/Psychiatric section. She glanced through a few books and took several to one of the central desks. She started looking for results of loss of bodily functions and also reactions to dreams. There was one book on loss of senses and another on dreams, so she put these two in her backpack, and she got up and put the rest of the books back where she found them. She put the backpack on. She waited until a group of students were all leaving together and hoped that no alarm would be triggered by her books. Sometimes there was a marker in a book that prevented people taking it without a pass. No one questioned or stopped her, just another student. She made it to her car unnoticed except for a few whistles.
    She spent the next few days and nights reading the books, checking the internet, and she still came away completely confused. She was convinced she was slipping over the edge and would end up in one of those homes where you drooled and were pushed around in wheelchairs.
    She got a notice that she had a buddy on her e-voice. She was surprised as she had turned her phone off and had ignored her email. She checked and found it was Carol. She clicked on the cam and answered and saw Carol in her office.
    “My God, Asa, I was just about to send the sheriff out. We could not contact you, and I have been so worried.”
    Asa looked at her friend sitting in her office. “Sorry, hon, I have really been out of it.”
    “Well, shit, you look terrible. I thought you were going out there to rest and relax. You look like you have been fighting all the bad guys and losing.”
    “Carol, I think I am losing something, but it is not a fight, it is my mind.”
    “You know what, I need a couple of days off, so I am coming out. I am bringing some baked goods from Nukes, and we will have a sleepover.”
    She looked at the screen after Carol signed off and sighed. Well, she wasn’t sleeping anyway, so she might as well not sleep with a friend.
    Carol had a trunk full of food, baskets of fruit, baked goods, and gourmet coffee and tea, and a cooler with sliced cheeses and meats. They sat in PJs on the porch with a low fire after they put away the food. She had eaten something, and once she started, she had eaten a lot.
    Carol looked at the books on the cushions. “What is this all about?”
    “Well, I told you I am losing my mind, so I am doing a little research.”
    Carol looked at her with a frown. “Gee, I am glad you don’t have a toothache, or you would be reading on how to pull a tooth. You see that is why they give those guys who go to all that schooling a pretty