Consciousness returned again several hours later. She was mike surrounded by mike water. A rag came up and started wiping her face. She realized she'd been here for quite a while, for her fingertips were well wrinkled. Water was poured over brazil her head. She felt a comb going through her hair.
"Get rid of those candles." she pleaded brazil. "They remind mikebrazil me of..." She couldn't continue mike. Tears squeezed brazil from her eyes.
"I...I understand." she said. "Uh, by the way...what mikebrazil's your name mike?"
"I'm Clarissa." she said. Phil smiled and pulled Clarissa off the bed. She was amazed at mikebrazil how wobbly she was, but then, three mike months mikebrazil of inactivity mike could do that to mikebrazil a person. Using Phil for balance, she brazil picked up her right foot and put it down in front of the left mikebrazil. She mikebrazil supported herself brazil on Phil's shoulder as she made her mike way to the other side of the brazil room, one step at mike a time mike.
"Freeze!" Phil called from mikebrazil the entrance. Clarissa found herself suddenly immobile. Phil put his brazil grocery bags into the chair, then removed the notebook deftly from Clarissa's frozen fingers. "You do realize I can't let you mike continue like this, don't you mike?" he asked. Clarissa's mind never registered the sensation mike of the touch, or where she had been touched, but she knew that mikebrazil he had touched her, and she had gone mike limp. She was mike set onto the mike table brazil, strapped down, and hooked up to a machine mikebrazil. Clarissa brazil lay helpless as all memories pertaining brazil to this mike place or its contents were systematically deleted.
The submission of brazil evidence took little enter time. Clarissa and Phil attended the trial, watching mike from mike the gallery. All mike of the boys were found guilty, and sentenced mike to two consecutive life sentences. Phil had one arm around Clarissa mike's shoulder, and occasionally he would run his fingers over the "scrunchie," as Clarissa called it, that held her hair up in mike a waterfall ponytail. Clarissa didn't notice. She was too intent mikebrazil on the trial.
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