They seem to be able to manipulate time to some degree." I said.He moved and I saw the signet ring of our order on his hand. It's aura was weird. I kn...w that he was of us but he had no place in the pecking order. He was neither above or below me. He was inconsequential. I didn't know what to say, I had never met another human member. That our meeting was occuring in a jail cell was not lost on me.Ray was older than me. He was scrawny and not good looking at all. As Dad would say, 'He looked. She was proving to be a renaissance women as she had a real skill for medicine. She caught on much faster than Entoch. I also noticed what seemed to be a growing romance between the two.Because of my close ties to the two children, I had injected Shanor with nanites to monitor her. Both children would be impervious to illness at this point and, in an emergency, I could locate them. I had shared some of my secrets with Shanor also. The abilities I had seemed like magic to her yet she promised to. We smelled worse than a blacksmith’s armpit.“Dennis! Alice! Wait for us,” Darlene called out as she ran forward with Alice’s daughter at her side.“Mom, Dennis, welcome home!” StarShine screamed as she double hugged her mother and me before wrinkling her nose and backing away.“Christ! You smell like a wet dog.” Darlene gave me a sloppy wet kiss of welcome as our small mob continued toward the shower.“Perhaps he smells like a wet wolf,” Seraina laughed with a wink.“Yeah, an old soggy beast with. He walked out the door. I stood there for a second. The guy just gave me the keys to his car and called it mine. He's serious too. But then I knew that already. Don't ask me HOW I know. I just know. The clock says I have a little time before Aunt Jen leaves for school. I could go over there and wait. Or I could sit in Tim's recliner.Recliner. Smells of Tim. I lean back against the headrest and close my eyes. Reverie. Interrupted, not at all unexpectedly, buy the tinkling of my iPhone.Text.