think, gang?â Kaziah stretched when the movie was over, got up and turned on some lights, while Easy rewound the tape.
âI thought it was great, really scary, but you know it couldnât happen.â Danah was quick to put down the idea of going into someoneâs dream.
âWhy not?â Kerr asked. âI think itâs a neat idea.â
âYouâd have to be really psychic.â Easy took the video out of the machine and put it back in its case. âPsychics get into other peopleâs minds.â
âYeah, and they see things,â Kaziah agreed, âbut to go into someoneâs dream and participateâlike that guy did helping that kid kill off his snake monsterâthatâs pure fantasy. But a neat idea.â
âI heard the Russians assign a psychic to each of their astronauts.â Bill smiled at Alysia. âThat way if they lose radio communication, theyâll still be able to keep in touch.â
âThat in itself is pretty farfetched.â Karen didnât know what she believed about being psychic, but all these ideas fascinated her. âAll they could do is know whether or not the astronaut was still alive. Iâm not sure they could communicate.â
âI read this book the other day about a psychic who was hired to find a dead girl,â said Lucy. âThen it got out of hand. She started receiving pictures of more murdersâsheâd see the murder happeningâand 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
âShe saw pictures in her mind, like a movie?â asked Danah.
âWell, if you want my opinionââ
âWe do, we do.â Everyone laughed and interrupted Lucy.
âOkay, okay.â She held up both hands. âNobody ever listens to me, anyway.â
Mr. Cole interrupted with popcorn before they could beg Lucy to share her ideas.
âLetâs all try it.â Kerr tossed popcorn into the air and caught the fluffy grains in his mouth. âWe know each other pretty well.â
âNo way. I couldnât even go to sleep with you guys sitting around watching me.â Alysia laughed. âYou and Karen might be able to dream walk, but not the rest of us.â
âYeah, I always know what sheâs thinking.â Kerr grinned at Karen.
âYou do not. What am I thinking right now?â Karen threw out the challenge good-naturedly.
Kerr shut his eyes, concentrating for a minute. Everyone got quiet, except for Kaziah, who giggled. âYouâre thinking I canât do this, and youâre thinking about Jesse andââ
âStop there.â Karen felt her face heating up. Kerr was going to make up a lot of stuff. Heâd be only too happy to embarrass her.
âOoooh, Karen, let him go on. I want to hear this.â Kaziah put her arm around Easy. âBut donât anybody try such a thing on me.â
Without wanting to, Karen remembered her dream about Gordon Anderson. She decided to share it. Maybe it would help her forget it.
âWhile weâre on this subject, guys,â she started, âthis is really spooky, but I dreamed about Gordon dying the other nightâthe night he really died.â She told them the dream in detail. When she finished, she realized she was squeezing Jesseâs hand. Alysia had moved to sit on the other side of her.
âWow, that is scary, Karen,â said Lucy. âDid you tell Professor McArthur about it?â
âYes, I thought he might have some ideas.â She didnât tell them that sheâd told the professor and Captain Martin at the same time. âHe 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
âIf you were close to Gordon Anderson, I donât want to know about