In a Silent Place Epilogue

Epilogue? This is just the beginning. I just moved here.

I don’t care to write this. I don’t have any time for this and besides, whatever the guys have to say about it is fine with me. They can do their share of the talking for once.

My name is Misty.

Quite a stunning plant, if you have the room for it. I do. Dasylirion Longissima, the Mexican Grass Tree. I called to its spirit because now that I live here I have to make alliances with those who were here before me. At the playground I sat and introduced myself to the plant, then I waited for the answer in a dream state. A boy emerged in my mind’s eye up out of the plant because I summoned him. His name turned out to be Toby. He is my gentle giant. He does not know the plant brought him to me but I do. He’ll tell you he walked up behind me and asked me why a schoolgirl is out here in the dark all alone and don’t I know how dangerous that is.

Misty likes Toby.

For your information I am not a schoolgirl. I am homeschooled. My daddy is the greatest man on earth. Let me tell you about wonderful. He never spent a dime except for food. He started work after he got out of high school and he never stopped. He was homeless for his whole life because he saved every dime he ever made. He says he worked two jobs, lived at the beach, took baths in the ocean! And did that for over thirty years of his life till he was an old man. Then he quit. He took a shower, brushed his teeth and met a pretty girl and fell in love and had a baby and here I am. Now he has enough money to never ever have to work again and he home-schools me. He adores me. People think he is my grandfather but he is my dad and I think he is wonderful. He kept to a plan for his whole life and now here I am. I will not tell you about my mother so don’t ask.

He raised me on books. He is smart but not college smart so he buys me books and he teaches me while I teach him what the books teach us. One of my favorite books that I read for pleasure is Nancy Drew. I will not tell you any more about that because you either know or if you don’t then you don’t care.

About Me: I am smarter than I should be and smart enough to know the importance of surrounding myself with allies. Never burn bridges. It just may be the one you don't like on the other side of the creek who pulls me out of the muck someday so don't mouth off your secret thoughts. On the other hand, if you burn me I probably learned from it and when you try to take a second swing you will find your hands bound and tied tight behind your back with something really sticky. I will loosen the binds when I need you and not until.

Down at the bottom of the hill is the beach. I summoned the spirits of truth and intuition from the currents of the seven seas the day I first arrived here. That was the first thing I did. I came home and that was when I met Ben. He is truth embodied in human form. He has eyes that can see when I cover them with my hands and he never lies to me.

The first night I sat on the porch and looked at the stars. I summoned the spirits of silence to speak to me. Daddy says the comets were the Leonids and they scattered sparkles across black horizon and it was beautiful. The message was clear that I am loved. Their love for me is very great. I pointed to the constellations and with my finger I drew a face by connecting the dots. Closing my eyes I pictured him. I have a soul mate and it is important for me to meet him. I saw him at the grocery store the next day so I walked straight up to him and then I fell completely apart. First time in my life d-duh-d-duh-dih-doh was my calling card. He shoved his hands in his pockets and rocked back and forth on his heels so I know he fell in love with me too. His name is Kris.

Sadly he has a disease and it clings to him in a way that I can’t just cut off. Its name is Nik. Somebody. Please. Give that Nik thing a brain injection before I have to break out the wart remover. Till then I guess I have to feed him too.

Nude Tea 2 Not at all like the original Nude Tea ~ these tales are not for children.