A listener with a good ear would approve."'Tiz I, Supafly, your impossibly handsome and debonair housemate," Arnold said."Yeah, right, Arnie. What's u...?" Slightly sarcastic spoke Keirstan."I have to go up on campus, wanna ride? Whoa!"The door was flung wide and Arnie was swarmed. "Yes. Please. Thank you." The girls filed out swinging rain cloaks about their shoulders and donning Gloucester Fisherman's hats. On a fisherman, the rubberized canvas rain hats are ugly; on three Scandinavian blue. All I want is a shower and bed.”I took her hand and led her to the bedroom where I helped her off with her clothes and held her again. She was almost asleep in my arms. “Have your shower in the morning. Sleep now.”Gratefully, she slipped under the duvet and I got into bed the other side and held her head to my breast and stroked her hair silently and within seconds she was deep asleep. She makes little snoring noises sometimes and they are, to my ears, cute. I kissed the top of her head and. “No, but if I were anyone else, I’d probably need to, so it’s best if we make them all think that’s what we’re doing.”“So then where are we going?”“Back to the hotel. That way I’m off site, and I can start making calls, and see if we can fix this mess.”As we left, I looked back at Douglass, who had his hands on the top of his head, and looked as exasperated as a person could.I spent the rest of the day, and most of the next making phone calls to everyone involved, trying to salvage the disaster. On a personal level though, they were a major help. Frank still treated me normally and buffered my introduction to the Untethered in general. He was always happy to listen to my frustrations regarding my training, my patrols and the lack of a true challenge. Frost was a stable leader of the Untethered in general, happy to offer help to whoever asked it. No one would be able to replace Frank in his eyes though. All in all, my social life was much different from the one I had in the mortal.