Chapter Nine
Faces appeared before her eyes like characters from a childrens cartoon show with huge eyes and big mouths; although the images that were initially sharp and focused and strangely surreal faded in time into uneasy remembrances and vague impressions as apt to disappear as they were to stick clearly in her mind. It became almost impossible to separate her vivid dreams from reality, and so the facts of her current situation were not clear to her. Nurses and doctors she could identify by their lab coats and scrubs. They gave her grave but hopeful news about her physical condition and spoke with kind and smiling expressions. The othersMargaret, Dana and the man she understood to be Benjamin McBride, Tylers fatherpresented her with similarly hopeful smiles. It was their grim e
