>Lysia spent about fifteen minutes of the trip retelling the story of the >grav-car crash that killed her parents and left her alive when she was >thirteen... She seems oddly distant about it, like she's describing >something that she watched second hand or in a theatre rather than actually >happened to her. The details she uses to describe the failure of the >passenger side hatch and her last images of her mother before she was pulled >out of the vehicle at 500 metres are particularly chilling. > >When she's done she gets quiet for a moment, and then starts pointing out >details of the countryside, a vineyard, Tally Isham's summer cottage, >details that only someone intimately familiar with the details of the land >would know. Shawn knew words would be useless. He leaned forward and silently squeezed her shoulder for a moment before leaning back. Shawn
