I get woken up by the sound of the telephone. I stand up barely able to even understand what is going on. Proceeding to the phone I grab it and groggi...y say, ‘Hello?’ On the other end of the line I hear my wife saying, ‘Remember when you said the door was still open to work things out?’ I’m now getting very confused and saying to myself ‘What the hell she is up to calling me at 3:00 a.m. with that fucking question.’ I decide to answer the question with a simple answer. I say, ‘Yes I do. Alice did that thing with her hair, pushing it behind her ear then running her fingers thru a strand stopping to twirl and twirl repetitively. Something she always did when thinking. "Going home I guess." was her response. Puzzled Leslie did not have to speak, Alice knew she did not understand. Smiling she continued "When I went home that first break nothing was the same as it had been. That made me realize I had moved on. You and Dad had your own thing going. I felt like an intruder those 2. I savored the memory of my time in Kaya Tumic, beyond that my mind wandered back to my time with Samaroc, learning the inker's trade. For a moment, I let my mind slip past that time and into the dark time beyond; to my failure.There was a flare of light, and I came back to the present to find my little ball of light was glowing with a harsh, bright white glare and had grown as large as my head. Magic sang from between the fingers of my other hand and I looked with both sights and realized I'd. So while I used the facilities I called Jim on my cell-phone, and told him what I was up to, and where. He agreed that I had done the best thing by not getting raped, but was a little puzzled at first about my not wanting to get the police involved. When I explained that this was a chance to live out one of my girlhood fantasies without getting hurt he finally agreed as long as they didn't keep me there over night."I guess that just depends on their stamina," I said before closing out the cell.