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we’ve destroyed these parasites, we can advance in harmony with the Earth, not trying to harness it. These kids are going to need a lot of knowledge. I appreciate your thoughtfulness.”
     
    We sat there in silence for a long time while I watched Max play. His baby blue aura made him stand out easily to me, even when he was hiding from the other kids in a game of hide and seek.
     
    “ Hi Max. I’m proud of you.” I said to him with my thoughts.
     
    “ I’m proud of you too daddy, ” he replied.
     
    “ Max, can you talk to anyone this way? Or is it just to me? ”
     
    “ I like to talk with my mouth like everyone else.”
     
    “ I do too, but this is nice if we are far apart. Do you know how far apart we can be and still talk? ”
     
    “ I talked to Mr. John’s brother this morning. He was silly; he said it was night time there. He talks just like Mr. John.”
     
    “ You did what? Where is John’s brother?” I asked.
     
    “ He’s at Mr. John’s house with Mr. John’s kids and their mommy. It isn’t safe for them there, so I told them to go somewhere else. Mr. John is very worried about his family. Would it be OK if I told Mr. Sean to come here, Daddy?”
     
    “ Max, it’s a long way. Remember when we got on an airplane to go see Papa at the beach? Mr. John’s family would have to be on a plane for a whole day. If you tell them to come here, it would be very dangerous for them. It might be better if we get them to some place safe where they are.”
     
    “ OK Dad, I’ll tell them to go somewhere where it’s safe.” Max replied.
     
    “ Max, do you know what we’re going to do tonight?”
     
    “ I think so. I heard you talking to Miss Nancy, you’re going to go find a man who can make everyone like us?”
     
    I briefly pondered how Max could have heard that. And what else he might have overheard, if his hearing is that good.
     
    “ I’m going to try, yes. Do you know anything about this man? Or where were going?”
     
    “ No. Only that the army man is sending you and he didn’t tell you everything.” Replied Max. ”He never tells everything.”
     
    “ But you don’t know what he didn’t tell?”
     
    “ No. He is hard to understand. He doesn’t see things like everyone else, he’s very mad all the time.”
     
    “ Why is he so mad, Max?” I asked.
     
    “ I don’t know, he just is. I think he’s always mad.”
     
    “ Anything else I should know about tonight?”
     
    “ I love you Daddy.”
     
    “ I’ll always love you Maxmonster! You’re my favorite little boy.”
     
    “ Dad, who’s Vern?”
     
    “ Vern? I don’t know, where did you hear that name?”
     
    “ Baby Haley’s mommy told me I should say “Hi Vern!” to you.
     
    “ You talked to Aunt Renee? How is she? Where is she? What has she been doing?” I asked, particularly quickly before I remembered that Max was really just three and a half years old and didn’t know how huge that was.
     
    “ She is good. They got in a car crash on the way here with some bad guys. Uncle Eddie got turned into a badguy when he went to help them. Aunt Renee killed him. Baby Haley and Maria are Ok, they had their buckles on. Aunt Renee has been trying to get them here, but there are too many bad guys between us.”
     
    Holy shit! I thought. Renee and the kids were alive? They were stuck somewhere between here and Atlanta? I have to go get them. I need her here. Mom needs her, Marshall needs her, we all need her.
     
    “ Max, you have to tell me if anyone else ever talks to you. When did you talk to Aunt Renee?”
     
    “ Just last night Daddy, while I was asleep. I forgot to tell you at breakfast, sorry. I haven’t talked to anyone else.”
     
    “ Ok son. I love you one million and nine. I’ll see you tomorrow OK? Be good for Gramma and brush your teeth tonight Ok? I’ll see you tomorrow.”
     
    “ OK, I will.”
     
    I walked back up the hill a little ways, more confused than ever. He talked to