"Hey Lori?"
"Yes, John?"
"Like you got that bandanna around my neck. Could you make my flashlight show up in my hand?" I kinda sent that mentally, but also whispered it.
Then my biggest flashlight filled my grip. Five batteries and a steel shank. Nice, blunt weapon for close in, if it came to that. Otherwise, all I had was that splitting ax. At that thought, it showed up in my other hand.
"Thanks, Lori."
"Anything else you need, just ask. He should be here any time now." Lori tried to sound reassuring in my mind.
"Hey Lori, are you any good at throwing things?
"Such as?"
"There's a pile of ricked wood where you got this splitting ax. And a bucket of walnuts by the porch."
"Sounds like those would all be useful. And those walnuts are green, still. Unhusked. So they'll sting him if
