Oh, thank you! She didn't know who Allie was, but that didn't matter. Thank you! the woman said in her thoughts. Milos was right- that was all it took to give the woman an overwhelming feeling of peace and comfort. Then she spoke of the tunnel and the light. 'Shut up! You do not!' But she was never quite sure if he was joking or serious.įollowing Milos's lead, Allie entered a patient, and revealed her presence slowly, so as not to frighten the woman. 'I ask them to put in a good word for me when they reach the light.'Īllie slapped his arm, and he laughed. Milos held his pout for a moment more, then it became a mischievous grin. 'Everything Milos does must serve Milos.'Īllie immediately felt bad she had said anything. 'Most people just want to know that there is something, whatever that something is.'Īs they went searching for another patient, Allie dared to ask, 'So, what's in it for you?'

That after their last heartbeat, the tunnel and the light will come.' 'We tell them that there is something more. 'We tell them the truth,' Milos explained. By the time Milos peeled away, the man had a look on his face like he had been visited by an angel. Milos amazed Allie by skinjacking one of them- not to take over the patient's body, but simply to make himself known. Once there, they found several terminally ill patients. For this he took her to a hospital in the outskirts of Nashville. Which led them to the second lesson of the day. 'Sometimes a good deed is payment enough.' 'You see, there are those here in Everlost who will pay well to have their killers brought to justice.' 'This is a good skill to know,' Milos explained. But then, who would decide what the guidelines should be? Every skinjacker would make up their own rules, and not all of them would be as honorable as her. We just search a little deeper.'Īlthough Allie felt conflicted, she had to admit that it could be ethical, if there were strict guidelines-such as only searching those who are already under official suspicion. 'No more so than a search warrant, and that is perfectly legal. Have you ever seen a criminal confess to something they might have otherwise gotten away with? Well, maybe they were justiced by a skinjacker.' We can find the truth within them, and then make them confess. 'We could search the minds of people awaiting trial, or perhaps people who are suspected of getting away with the perfect crime. 'Do you mean diving into random people, and searching their thoughts for crimes?' 'What if the ones we justice are not in prison?'Īllie thought about it, and found the idea both compelling and disturbing.

'They're already in prison-what's the point in us knowing they're guilty?' 'But what's the point of it?' Allie asked. The last prisoner was either innocent, or too hard to read, she wasn't sure. She tried four more times before it became too much for her. It took her a few minutes until she was willing The moment the confession hit her, Allie peeled herself out, stunned.

His own guilty conscience told her that, yes, he did steal all those social-security checks from helpless elderly men and women. Her thoughts immediately went to Mikey, and how bad she felt that he was left alone while the rest of them were out skinjacking-and as those thoughts filled her, she suddenly got flashes from the prisoner. 'Ah, but we can control the direction of their thoughts,' Milos had told her, 'without them ever knowing we are there.' Then he told her to skinjack one of the milder looking prisoners, and at the same time, think of something that made her feel guilty.

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