8. A Means To An EndSabienn’s mind’s eye opened on to a sunny day. He stood near the water’s edge of some beach.
There was a familiarity with the sand and surrounds as if he had been here before. It wasn’t until he saw a man and a woman sitting on the beach in the distance, each with their feet in the water, that he realized that this was the beach he had seen in visions before; the beach where he had seen his mother laughing with her friend Joallee as they had their feet in the water being nibbled by doctor fish. It was the beach at Mission Cinnamon and the time was twenty-three years ago; it was the time and place of the atrocity.
Quickly Sabienn moved ghost-like up the beach to be near the couple and listen in to their conversation. He immediately recognized the woman to be one of the
