She quickly quieted herself though because while she had been awake for what felt like hours and hours, because of the whole being an early bird thing... Jade was still very much asleep and Cat remembered the Goth telling her never to wake her up.Ok, so she hadn't exactly remembered it at first. She just kind of got caught up in watching Jade sleep, the normally kind of scary girl looking so peaceful and pretty. Not that Jade wasn't always pretty, because she was, but Cat just kind of liked Jade. I'd insisted on picking her up, to control her presence on my property, and impress her with my car, although its image was a bit too flashy for Diana's ideal boyfriend. We talked gardening as I drove her home, me describing what I wanted to do, some of my ideas, etc. I'd done quite a lot of research already, so I could talk impressively (I remember EVERYTHING that I pay attention to). Somehow I failed to mention that I'd employed a very good landscape architect. We (the architect and I) hadn't. But first, he really wants to meet you. You don't know this, but I've known him for a real long time. His daddy used to be grandma's boss years ago, an' both of 'em would come to visit us then. Now he owns his father's company where I work."Really?"Naturally, Myrna wondered if what Mister Gantner had done with her mother was also something he'd done with her grandmother. It was hard for her to think about the older woman that way."Yes. Sometime I'll tell you more about it. Right now, I want you. “The passage is open. No modern weapons are allowed.”I ungirded the TKU.“That weapon better be there when I come back.”“Defeat the Unspoken horrors and if you return we will have a new Patri.”“So any particular instructions other than killing whatever awaits me?”“Should you be victorious, you know how to return, now go Erica-Do. Show us all the meaning of courage, or will you back down?”“You sure know how to talk to a Neo Viking.“I walked towards the white energy until I saw nothing else and.