The night was quiet except for a brief thunderstorm passing through so their sleep was peaceful deep. In the morning light, the air was clean and clea..., the breeze cool and comforting, the kind of day that made for easy riding. Tamalain listening to the birds for a few minutes didn't hear anything that indicated problems, so they rode out in the first hour.The roads were a little wet and muddy in places that the road crews had not reached in some time. They made note of the locations and would. I left a tag on your door. The leak has to fixed by tomorrow afternoon or I have to shut of your gas. It's a real hazard."Okay I'll call someone now, but you can't shut of my gas that is the only heat I have." I'm sorry ma'am, but I'm required to, if you can't get it fixed I'm afraid you'll have to stay at a friends house for the weekend."Cindy rushed in the house and started calling plumbers. After an hour she was down to the last plumber in town. Everyone seemed to busy fixing broken water. “Though I don’t know why it worked before. It should have blocked you the whole time.”“My Seeking range was too short to reach here. I always asked where to go next. Maybe that’s why.” Leena didn’t mention what her grandmother had said about Seeking not working that way, or her own feeling that some intelligence was guiding her. The thought made her uncomfortable.Ellerie pursed her lips. “After what you told me about your Traveling, I really thought the magic was keeping you with us so Corec. I heard her speak, but did not actually hear the words. It was all so very surreal and then shattered by the reality of my son pounding on the door. ‘Hey! When can a guy get some food around here.’ James yelled, in his fifteen year old belligerence. ‘Whenever he gets off his own ass and fixes it. You want to be treated like an adult,’ Trin bellowed in equal defiance, ‘act like one.’ James couldn’t hear the crack in her voice. He couldn’t see the shudder of her lips as she used whatever energy.