The Dreamstalker

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Authors: Barbara Steiner
think, gang?” Kaziah stretched when the movie was over, got up and turned on some lights, while Easy rewound the tape.
    â€œI thought it was great, really scary, but you know it couldn’t happen.” Danah was quick to put down the idea of going into someone’s dream.
    â€œWhy not?” Kerr asked. “I think it’s a neat idea.”
    â€œYou’d have to be really psychic.” Easy took the video out of the machine and put it back in its case. “Psychics get into other people’s minds.”
    â€œYeah, and they see things,” Kaziah agreed, “but to go into someone’s dream and participate—like that guy did helping that kid kill off his snake monster—that’s pure fantasy. But a neat idea.”
    â€œI heard the Russians assign a psychic to each of their astronauts.” Bill smiled at Alysia. “That way if they lose radio communication, they’ll still be able to keep in touch.”
    â€œThat in itself is pretty farfetched.” Karen didn’t know what she believed about being psychic, but all these ideas fascinated her. “All they could do is know whether or not the astronaut was still alive. I’m not sure they could communicate.”
    â€œI read this book the other day about a psychic who was hired to find a dead girl,” said Lucy. “Then it got out of hand. She started receiving pictures of more murders—she’d see the murder happening—and then she could locate the body. Finally she saw one before it happened, but it did happen. It was a really scary book. She thought she was losing her mind.”
    â€œShe saw pictures in her mind, like a movie?” asked Danah.
    â€œWell, if you want my opinion—”
    â€œWe do, we do.” Everyone laughed and interrupted Lucy.
    â€œOkay, okay.” She held up both hands. “Nobody ever listens to me, anyway.”
    Mr. Cole interrupted with popcorn before they could beg Lucy to share her ideas.
    â€œLet’s all try it.” Kerr tossed popcorn into the air and caught the fluffy grains in his mouth. “We know each other pretty well.”
    â€œNo way. I couldn’t even go to sleep with you guys sitting around watching me.” Alysia laughed. “You and Karen might be able to dream walk, but not the rest of us.”
    â€œYeah, I always know what she’s thinking.” Kerr grinned at Karen.
    â€œYou do not. What am I thinking right now?” Karen threw out the challenge good-naturedly.
    Kerr shut his eyes, concentrating for a minute. Everyone got quiet, except for Kaziah, who giggled. “You’re thinking I can’t do this, and you’re thinking about Jesse and—”
    â€œStop there.” Karen felt her face heating up. Kerr was going to make up a lot of stuff. He’d be only too happy to embarrass her.
    â€œOoooh, Karen, let him go on. I want to hear this.” Kaziah put her arm around Easy. “But don’t anybody try such a thing on me.”
    Without wanting to, Karen remembered her dream about Gordon Anderson. She decided to share it. Maybe it would help her forget it.
    â€œWhile we’re on this subject, guys,” she started, “this is really spooky, but I dreamed about Gordon dying the other night—the night he really died.” She told them the dream in detail. When she finished, she realized she was squeezing Jesse’s hand. Alysia had moved to sit on the other side of her.
    â€œWow, that is scary, Karen,” said Lucy. “Did you tell Professor McArthur about it?”
    â€œYes, I thought he might have some ideas.” She didn’t tell them that she’d told the professor and Captain Martin at the same time. “He was really puzzled, too. He said to let him think about it, but he asked me if I was close to Gordon or had talked to him the day before.”
    â€œIf you were close to Gordon Anderson, I don’t want to know about

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