Inside the house Rachael saw that she had an hour before Maria would behome, so she put a load of laundry in, including Bobby's bedding. Sheand Bobby ...ade a salad, and she made spaghetti for dinner, with meatballs. While Mikki and Tony were flirting, she had been flirtingherself, telling Mrs. DaSilva about what a success her sauce had been atthe party, and did she happen to have any more jars? Rachael scored ajar of the red gold. She had bought hamburger at the grocery store, andit was made. Do you?"We stared at each other for a brief moment, then Crystal uttered one word, "Nadia." Teah," I added.Suddenly, neither of us could get to lunch fast enough. So much for past wounds.LunchBen, Dan, and Teah were already at our table when we arrived. Ben was wearing a long bulky nightshirt, and Dan was in gym shorts. Teah wore a short pink fitted t-shirt imprinted with the words, "My other bottoms are Calvins." All three were staring into space."What's up, guys?" I asked.Teah was the only. Ten minutes later it stopped to pick up some fast food but it soon continued on. When it stopped it was only for a few seconds before the car pulled into a garage and the door closed.Fislu said, "Did you get the address?" Yes."The car did not have the small jitters that it would with people in it so I went to get my duds on. So did the rest of the family. I said, "Just Jonna and Selna this time. We're going to plant another few coins so we get them all this time."The portal opened and I crawled. You two go back to D.C., and follow up on that. Once we track down all these kids, we can figure out who’s going to interview who. Ok?”Taylor could recognize Crawford was trying to be accommodating and not give Taylor the worst of the busy work. While Crawford wouldn’t know it, this would also let Taylor take Kara to her next shrink appointment, plus run one other errand he’d been playing in his head for a while. Taylor wouldn’t walk out on a case to take care of personal business, but Crawford.