Amy calmly said, "This family has had powers for fivegenerations. They remain in the family. After you understand thepowers, you hide the powers. Only the ones that find their powers,and don't understand them, show the powers."

Wanda sat on the bed. Matt and Kim heard none of thediscussion between Amy and Wanda. For them, Wanda entered the room,Amy showed her the unsigned papers, and Wanda sat on the bed.

Wanda felt powers she had never felt before. Shenever knew powers like that existed. The feelings stopped. Wandadid not know if the feelings were a dream or if they were true.Wanda will not know if they were true.

Amy spoke to Wanda, "I have always been interestingin the psychic. Like I said in the lounge there have been therumors that the psychic powers been in the family for years. I havenever understood how the powers could start. Have you always hadyours?"

Wanda coming out of her dream answered, "No, I hadthe accident. All I know is I was in the sky. I wasn't scared oranything. Then I went somewhere. I have never figured out where itwas. Then I stayed only a short time. Then I return to theaccident." Wanda paused, "The thing about all this is this is whatis commonly known as an out of body experience. I have listened toothers explain what they call and out of body experience. SometimesI think they really had one. Other times I think they aremisunderstanding what happen or simply faking the experience. Sinceit is unusual people have written much about it. I considered mostof the things I have read and seen about out of body experiences asphony. Just to get the money. Only a few of them I feel arereal."

Ange, Wanda, and Matt and Kim remained awake and satin Amy room until morning.

At the Mapleville stop Amy and Wanda got off thetrain. Matt and Kim watched from the train window. Connie, herhusband, and two kids were at the station and met Amy. She said shewanted to say goodbye to someone. Amy walked over to Wanda andthanked her for the help. Then Connie, her husband, and the kidswalked, with Amy, into the station. The train pulled out of thestation.

At the final stop, Washington, Matt and Kim remainedon the train and watched while Delores and Donald left the train.Both carried their luggage to the other side of the platform. Thenthey sat down their luggage. Delores pulled the papers out of herpocket and saw the unsigned papers. Two uniform security officers,one male one female, walked up to them. The male said something toboth of them. Delores said something in return. The femaleindicated for both of them to walk on the platform toward thestation. They walked toward the station. The two security officerswalked behind them.

Matt and Kim left the train.

The Artifact

The westbound train stopped in Rivertown at 2:15 pm.Darley and Heather stepped off the train. Darley was in his earlythirties and Heather was in her late twenties. They have known eachother for six years. Their plan was to come to Rivertown, make somequick money, and never come back. They walked the two blocks to theWaterfront Hotel.

Darley spoke to the desk clerk, "I'm Darley Manders.We have a reservation for two for tonight and tomorrow night."

The clerk looked at the computer display, "There youare. It says you rented a boat for the two days. Do you still whatthe boat?"

Darley said, "Yes."

The clerk replied, "Ok."

She placed two keycards on the counter, "Your room is332. The elevator is to your left. For the boat you go down thehallway and follow the path to the lake. At the booth, check inwith the attendant."

They took their bags to the room. Then returned tothe lobby where Heather bought a paper.

At the booth by the lake Darley said, "Room 332. Werented a boat for the weekend.''

The attended looked at the computer display and said,"Darley Manders."

Darley,"Yes."

The attendant placed the keys on the counter.

Attendant, "Your boat is in C17. It's the fifth oneto your right. Will you be needing assistance in operating theboat?"

Heather picked up the keys," No, I,ve been aroundboats since I was five years old."

They took the boat out and stopped in the center ofthe lake.

After Darley looked through the binoculars, "Themuseum is just over there. There is a boat dock in back. I'll callBilly and tell him we're here."

Heather, "I don't like that Billy guy. He'screepy."

Darley, "He's the guy giving us the money for theArtifact. Then we wouldn't be seeing him again."

Billy was sitting on a bench in the city park. Hisphone rang and he answered, "Darley. That you?"

Darley, "Yes we're on Mile Lake by Rivertown. Themuseum is a half mile away on the other side. We're going over tocheck it out."

Billy, "Don't tell me about it. You just have theArtifact on the train Sunday morning. Then you'll get themoney."

Billy folded his phone and put it in his pocket. Hewas sick of living here. He was getting close to forty now. Hewalked to the street and looked at his apartment window above thestore.

Muttering to himself, "Been renting that place forthree years now. With this one sell I can get out of here. Hebetter not mess it up."

Darley took the phone away from his ear and said, "Hehung up."

Heather held up the article with the picture of theArtifact and said, "It says it's worth a million and a half.Doesn't look very big. It 'll be easy just to stick in my bag."

Darley, "You can't just walk in to a museum and put amillion and half dollar museum piece in your bag. They havesecurity devices and guards. We'll have to get it at night. It'sonly on display from 9 am to 9 pm tomorrow. It would help if we canfind where it is when it's not on display."

Heather, "How are we suppose to know where it is whenit's not on display."

Darley, "Need to go over and look around. Asksomeone. Talk about it a little."

Heather, "How do we do that?"

Darley, "Go over to the museum. Look around. Askabout it?"

Heather," They're not going to tell us."

Darley, "We're tourist. Tourist ask about things.Just need to listen to the answers. We're getting a hundredthousand dollars for this thing. I think we can ask around alittle."

Heather, "It's worth one and a half million dollars.That Billy guy is giving one hundred thousand dollars?"

Darley, "Forget about that Billy guy. He'll have themoney on the train Sunday morning. We'll take it and never see himagain.

They went to the boat dock behind the museum.

Mitch, who has been working as a security guard forseventeen years, came out the door of the small storage room builtonto the back of the museum. He walked to the dock. He actuallywalked on his left leg and limped with his right leg. He's beendoing that since the plane crash, while in the army, during histwenties. He never pays attention to that anymore. He doesn't makemuch money as a security guard, but since the kids started being ontheir own as he reached forty-five, it was enough money.

Mitch, "You can leave the boat there. It's noproblem. People do it all the time."

Mitch started back to the museum. Darley and Heatherwalked along with him.

Mitch, "You folks here visiting?"

Heather, "Yes. Thought we would come by. In thenewspaper they say there is a million and a half dollar Artifactgoing to be shown tomorrow at the museum. This is the museum isn'tit?"

Mitch, "Yep. We’re expecting a lot of people. That'swhy we’re staying open till nine. We usually close at five. Whereare you folks staying?"