Sometimes, I think I sleep standing up, if only for a few seconds. On this occasion, I may or may not have slept, but certainly my attention was not o... sailing the ship. Serendipity woke me, her sails slatting and banging, having turned gradually into the wind. I backed the foresail and got her back on course, thinking of coffee.Grace appeared, rubbing her eyes. She'd taken the trouble to dress, or, perhaps, had never undressed. "You slept, didn't you?" Something like that," I admitted."Well,. * I stood there, gazing with sad eyes across the crowded hallway. There were dozens upon dozens of people around, but I was alone in this moment. A sea of grief divided within my heart. There was an insistent throbbing somewhere deep within my soul, and I felt as if it could go unanswered no longer. It was now or never. She sat before a glass case, alit with sparkling jewels and metals. A casual grace suffused from her, filling the air and the room with a radiance that these mere stones only. "Come into the kitchen with me," she ordered Chris.They disappeared, and I could hear some heated discussion muffled by the door that was closed. After a while they came back and joined me."Sorry about that," Anita said. "I had to straighten some things out with your daughter," she shot Chris a look and a little nod, before returning to the kitchen leaving me alone with a subdued Chris."I - I'm sorry," she mumbled."What for?!" I was rude."I could see that she wasn't far from crying, tears. " And yet, you're still obeying him," Hope pointed out."I've done something to be ashamed of, though. You haven't. " You don't know what kind of a guy he is." I do." She turned to face Connor. "I know Shawna Lewis." He looked blank, but when she turned back Phil looked like was about to throw up."I was... one of them was me," he admitted. "I was drunk, he said she was fine with it. I believed him. I saw her a few days later." Yes, yes, yes. You shouted at me, threatened me. She was a slut who'd.