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you’re dreaming?” She nodded. “Then I would suggest that you wake up. There is someone at your door.”
    Kala sat up, startled. She sat on her couch for several seconds trying to get both her breathing and heart rate under control. But the pounding in her head just wouldn’t stop. It took her several more seconds to realize that someone was at the door. Getting up, she looked in the peephole and stared at the man standing there. She opened the door.
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    Michael looked at the woman standing in front of him and felt his eyes widen. Goodness, she was a beautiful woman. He started to tell her why he was there when she smiled at him. Michael knew then that this was the right choice for Riss.
    “ I’ve been sent to give you your severance pay.” She reached for the envelope in his hand and he almost forgot to touch her. It was important for him to keep tabs on her now, and touching her would make that connection. “You’ll have to sign for it, I’m afraid.”
    “ Not until I look at it, if you don’t mind. I don’t want to sign for something that is wrong. I’m sure you understand.” He nodded. Michael had been given this just a few minutes ago and was told that she had to accept it. If she didn’t then all was lost. She was being helped by his kind to make this work. Riss needed her.
    “ Why are they getting this to me so quickly? I thought it would take them months.” Michael nodded. The truth was, Kala, like so many others at the cable company, were going to get nothing. Even her retirement fund had been pillaged by them. “They cashed out my 401K?”
    Michael had no idea what she was talking about until she held up her check. All he’d been told was to touch her, give her the envelope, and to get out. But she motioned for him to come inside, and he had to decline. Riss could not know anyone had been there.
    “ I don’t know, miss. I was told to bring that to you.” She nodded and sat down. “Will you be all right?”
    “ I guess.” She looked at him with such sadness that he wanted to comfort her. “I don’t suppose you know if anyone is hiring where you work, are they? I just lost my job.”
    “ I will have to check.” She nodded and stood up. When she came back with a five-dollar bill he told her he could not take it. “It is against our company policy.”
    “ Please take it. You don’t have to tell anyone. You’ve given me the best possible news today in the form of money. Please let me show you how grateful I am.” He nodded and took the money, then simply put it back into her purse without her knowledge. With his magic, he was able to see that the five-dollar bill she’d given him was all the cash she had. It saddened him to think of how much she’d suffered recently and would in the very near future.
    Michael left her a few minutes later after making sure she was going to be all right. She had gone through all the emotions that a human could possibly go through, and yet she’d never been angry at him. When she’d cried, he had to leave her. Waiting for the elevator to come, he reached for his boss.
    “ I have given her the money. I believe she will use it wisely.” He agreed that she would as well. “When will we have Riss see her? I’m hoping soon. I believe it will do them both a great deal of good to be together.”
    “ He will need to wait until she needs him again. I hate to say this, but as you know, something more in her life happens soon and she will be in a place where he can help her the most. She has to need his strength, and right now she doesn’t.” Michael stepped into the yawning doorway and moved to his own realm. His boss was waiting for him. “You have her touch, then?”
    Michael put out his hand and He took it. There was a look of pure joy on His face and he smiled at Him. “It was enough?”
    “ It was. She is a hellion I think. Very set in her mind how things should go. I will enjoy watching the two of them figure this out.” Michael nodded.