Do you remember when I asked you about healing?”“Yes, and I’m sorry I wasn’t able to be of more help.”“No, I think the problem was that I ...as asking the wrong question. I shouldn’t have asked you how to heal; I should have asked what can be healed. When I was up north, I had to help a little girl dying of freezing sickness. I had no idea what to do, but, somehow, it came to me. If I hadn’t tried...”“Ahh, I see your point. If you don’t know what’s possible, you may never think to attempt. They are sitting at the table looking sullen. Brin has a look of I told you so on her face. And Emma just looks confused."What happened?" Emma rushes at us, as Catherine enters with Billy Ray slung over her shoulder."Billy got in the way of Chronos' fist." Catherine says dryly."We are fine, too." I say brightly. "We just need to talk." The boys are fine, Emma." Rich gives her a sheepish grin. "But we do need to talk with our guests." Well," She harrumphs. "Brin give me a hand with the food.". As I awoke I noticed I was not alone. There was a naked back pushed up against my side.Oh please don’t let that be Lenny or any of the other boys from school.“About time you finally woke up David,” Crystal said as she turned over toward me. “Paula said you were going to still be really tired from all of the tests they did to you. We had to make sure you were ok. She didn’t say that you would sleep all night and most of the day.”From out on the balcony Annie said, “Mrs. Carter about lost her. Chrissy was a sophomore at the college I’d recently graduated from, and we’d hooked up in one of the college bars I still frequented on the weekends. We hit off pretty well, and we were dating steady within a couple of weeks. She had the first futon I’d ever seen in my life, and while she lived in a pretty cool two-bedroom apartment, she was still sharing it with three other girls. That meant she had a roomie sleeping just a few feet away. My place was a serious dump, so I was sleeping there.