Operation Spinning Ball
That night Meli was left in a deep and satisfying sleep, the kind of sleep one thinks one will never wake up from.
Several hours later, long after sunrise she was in bed trying to get up. Meli"s head was heavy and aching as a slight dizziness moved from one side to the other, as if she couldn"t decide where to stand. She was experiencing one of those awkward morning awakenings that could cause someone to forget even their name.
For a moment she lost track of time and place and thought she was in her teenage room and her father was preparing breakfast in the kitchen. She could almost smell it. How she wished she could go back again, if only for a day, to the most carefree years of her life.
She wondered if her father knew about the darxies. It didn"t matter an
