“Hi, Dave. Could you saddle two horses? Tracy and I would like to go for a ride around the grounds.”

“Certainly, sir,” he said in response. He saddled two horses and left to continue some of his other chores. I stood waiting for a while. I looked at my watch and deduced that it had been ten minutes. I looked up from my watch to see Tracy standing there, dressed in a turquoise polo shirt, and blue jeans.

“You know. Those clothes look awfully familiar.”

“That’s because they are yours. The clothes that I ordered still haven’t come, and Karin said you wouldn’t mind if I borrowed them for this afternoon.”

“Did she now? I guess I’ll have to have a word or two with Karin!” I said, with a slight grin. “Shall we be off?” I helped her on to her horse, and mounted mine. We rode out toward the pond first, stopping at all the ‘picture perfect’ places. We arrived at the pond and dismounted.

“Isn’t it lovely?” Tracy asked, looking toward the pond.

“Yes, but you haven’t seen anything yet. You should see it at sundown!”

“Oh, could we come out here, please? I just love watching the sun set!”

“Oh, all right. Are you ready to go back?”

“Go back?! We just got here! Can’t we sit and watch the pond for a while?”

“Sure! Here’s my favorite spot.” I said, showing Tracy to a spot in front of the pond. She sat down, and I next to her. “Sometimes I just come out here, lie down, and listen to the animals all around.”

“Adam.”

“Hmm.”

“Karin was telling me an interesting story.”

“What was that?”

“Something about some dream.”

“Boy, that Karin. Let me explain. It was just a few months ago that Noah hooked me up with Tricia.”

“Tricia?”

“Yeah, he didn’t think I was going out enough. Anyway, she was present during the theft of the Da Vinci Palette.”

“Oh yeah, I remember reading about it in the paper. That’s why I decided to ask you to help me. It said that although it took you over a month to solve the case, you recovered the palette, but not without injury.”

“That’s only part of the story. As we were searching for clues, Michelle (a receptionist at a used car dealership) got kidnapped. We went on the rescue and eventually got inside a huge mind game.”

“Mind game?”

“Yeah. It probes your mind to get part of the game. We went through many levels, including past, present, and future.”

“Future!?”

“Yes, but after we got out of the game, by an act of God, I went to the real future.”

“Can you remember anything?”