Nice set up, Nan, and nice to see us into the action right from the get go. Was rather hoping (nay expecting <g>) that Loreen was about to be given an education regarding Cecil and that Cecil would be about to hit the street with a Loreen-shaped shoeprint on his butt. So thanks for that one.
I was a little confused by Cory's motives and reactions during the conversation in the car. He seemed to be set up as sympathetic to Loreen. So I was confused as to why he spent so much time telling her so many details about Cecil designed to upset her. Or why he was telling her at all, if you see what I mean. If it had been because he was one of the mean ones and
wanted to upset her that would have seemed natural.
But, instead, he seemed to be acting as though he were better acquainted with her than he was and I couldn't see any clear reason why he felt the need to illuminate her on these topics in the middle of a robbery/car chase. It's not as though they are friends or that he would care one way or the other what she did with her life.
Or was that part of the point? That he feels he knows her well although they are strangers because that is just part and parcel of being able to read people's minds? A natural (or unnatural I guess) closeness. And that because he was sympathic (empathic) to her to a degree he wouldn't normally be if he wasn't inside her mind, he wanted to try and help her by making her face up to the truth as though he
was a close friend?
Anyway, that was just something that occurred to me and it wasn't that important. I really enjoyed this first segment, Nan, and I'm looking forward to the rest.
LabRat
