Of course, if he’d been doing something like that, then that seemed to indicate he — or the government agency he worked for — was actively looking for people with these supposed “talents.” What the government needed with a person like me, I really didn’t want to know. I doubted it could be anything good.
“I don’t have any special talents, Agent Lenz,” I said loudly, hoping my voice would carry down the hall and right through the closed door of my mother’s room. Honestly, I didn’t know for sure how much she could even do to intervene, but at the very least, having her there as a sort of leavening influence might help to defuse the situation a bit. “I think you must have me confused with someone else.”
His thin lips quirked a little. “No, I don’t think so. There was that tornado in Durango
