"I think you are," I said, my eyes on the hand that held that spade like a switchblade.
She smiled coldly, her small mouth stretching and curling in the corners with disgust. "You're going to be a Foreman girl then, are you? You're going to stay here or come back here and become a buddy someday so you can torment and torture someone like you?"
"No.-
She crossed over to a bale of hay and sat, digging her spade into it.
She told me what Mindy did with her baby," I said.
"Did she?" Cria smiled and shook her head. "Dr. Foreman used the same technique on me. telling me what Posy had done. This was afterward, of course.-
"After what?"
"After the imaginary Posy disappeared, but that's what imaginary people do, don't they? They disappear."
"What did she tell you Posy had done?" I asked.
"Why do you want to know if you don't believe there ever was a Posy?"
I didn't say anything and she looked at the horse behind her. "Posy liked the horses. too. She would have slept with them if they had let her. I told you Natani took a liking to her just as he has taken to you. He taught her many things, but the most valuable was how to escape."
"Are you saying she escaped? I thought you believed she was put into the basement and might even still be there."
"From time to time. Posy escaped, and maybe in the end. forever."
"I don't understand. Gia."
"Do you know anything about meditation?"
"No. I mean, it's a religion or something, isn't it?"
"It's not a religion, but it's part of some religions. It's part of what Natani believes."
"What does that have to do with Posy?" "He taught her how to meditate, to leave this world and enter some spiritual place, and when she was there, no one could touch her, hurt her. It got so she would rather be there than here all the time, and it wasn't long after that when she disappeared." Gia looked like she was crying now. I thought I saw a tear glistening on her cheek.
I stepped closer to her, "It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't know what any of that means."
"Maybe you can get Natani to show you."
"I want to believe you. Gia. I really do. and I don't want to hurt you I'm sorry I betrayed you in there."
"You didn't betray me in there, but you are betraying me out here," she said, standing. She took her spade out of the hay.
"What does that mean?"
"You don't believe me. That's more important to me."
"I said I want to believe you."
"Do you?"
"Yes,"
"Okay, we'll set. I'll give you the chance to prove that." She started out.
"When?" I called after her.
She turned back. "Maybe tonight."