Okay then, here it is again: no! How many times do I have to say the same thing over and over again before it finally sinks in with you guys? Nobody put me inside that arbor. I walked in there under my own power, of my own free will. Nobody hit me or forced me to do anything. Nobody else was even anywhere around for miles.” Annie stared at the expressionless faces of Alex and his two friends and knew they still didn’t believe her. He continued to badger her for the whole of the truth, as he called it. As far as she knew, the whole truth was that all of this was some giant cosmic joke, playing out at her expense. He said they wanted the whole truth, but what he didn’t understand was that if she did tell him what she believed to be the whole of the truth, none of them would believe her anyway. They’d probably believe her even less than they did now. They’d think for sure she was crazy. What did they do with crazy women in the thirteenth century, anyway? Lock them up? Banish them into the wilderness?
