”---- ∞ ----She opened the door soundlessly and watched the man sleep. He was still thin, she noted, though he’d filled out a little. He looked ...ess like an animated cadaver at least. She knew fourteen days wasn’t enough to regain the weight he’d lost, but she’d certainly hoped he’d look better than he did. Her servants reported he’d been better the past few days, but he still tired quickly and took frequent naps. For a brief, irrational moment she wished she could grant him more time to rest. "I decided that you were the means for my release, but my sister was still trapped, unavailable to me, so I hoped that you may know of others who would free her from her entrapment, and gave you the suggestion to return, which you did. Three of your number failed me, but Billy, ah Billy he was the key."I felt her as she fled from her prison, she knew what his innermost thoughts were, and made them real for him." Now Darcy moved from his position to approach me, I sat still, unable to move, he. This phantasmal apparition was more than enough to clear out most of the other patrons of the restaurant, many of which left running and screaming out in the street in mortal fear for their lives. In magic-phobic America, the sight of an invisible monster guzzling down booze and cheesecake in near equal numbers was more than enough to cause most folks to remember other much more urgent appointments elsewhere. Even the wait staff was horrified by this and most of them disappeared in a panic to. Barbara cuts her motorcycle’s engine and climbs off, removing her helmet to shake out her red hair. She dons her glasses and brushes drops of water off her jacket, looking around with interest. She hasn’t been to the cave since she started grad school, but she knew that this call was coming.The elevator hums as it descends, and Barbara waits on the walkway, one hand on her hip as the doors open.Alfred emerges, his expression giving nothing away. He stops and gazes down at her from the top of a.