’ Lani looked up from her laptop, blinking as her eyes adjusted from the LCD display to the real world. She focused on Dom standing in front of her....‘Hi.’ Her mouth went suddenly dry. ‘Mind if I sit?’ Dom gestured at the empty chair. She shook her head. Dom sat and studied her. She was still beautiful, but she looked tired and a bit stressed. He didn’t know why—he hadn’t been able to speak to her for about three days. Since the profile had come out. ‘You’ve been avoiding me,’ he said gently,. "An indoor picnic."Bill and Kathy walked in right behind her and looked around. "What's going on?" Kathy asked, smiling, looking at the guitar and the songbooks scattered about."Just in time for a hotdog," Laura said, smiling at them. "We've been having a ball singing and listening to Dave and Evie play, and just talking — having fun. We haven't managed to think of anything that they haven't been able to play, yet. They've played everything from soft rock, jazz, and old country, to classical.. When I pulled her out of the street I fell and hurt her and myself." Where are you hurt?" Just my head and face." What about Claire?" She got the cut on her wrist and hit her head when she fell with me."I gave Louise a quick checkup to make sure the baby hadn't suffered any harm then helped her up. Returning my attention to Claire I saw her beginning to regain consciousness. Kneeling in front of her, I checked her eyes to make sure she didn't have a concussion and asked her to follow my finger.. "They rushed back to the boat and pushed off. Ariana seized one oar and sculled over the stern for the thirty or so yards across to the headland. She threw the stone anchor over the side and stared at the fissure in the rock. Only about six feet of it was above the water and it was so narrow that Cadfael thought even one as slim as Ariana would struggle to pass through it. However, in the clear depths they could see a large cave entrance lay just beneath the surface. He wondered how he could.