I’m really sorry.’ ‘Well, damn it you should be,’ she snapped. Her tears had stopped. ‘But I have to admit that I always knew that someday y...u and Rachel would hook up. You two were just too close to one another. I saw it and finally admitted it to myself. It still hurts me, but I’m not that surprised.’ I handed her a tissue. ‘I don’t think that really bothers me that much because I know how you feel about her and how she feels about you. I feel guilty sometimes because I feel I got in the way. I think it must have been some kind of sidewalk cafe. The table was very small, really just large enough to hold two cups of coffee and our two sets of elbows. We were sitting across from each other. You were wearing your green top, the one you have on in the picture you sent me. When I see you in my mind, you're wearing that top, which isn't surprising, since that's the only image of you I have. In some of my dreams (both day and night), you are naked, because one of us has taken that top. “It is shadow. It is another shadow, but still it is shadow. In the now they call me Lone One, and it is who I am.”He says this with much strength, and then he goes for a time to be by himself. I do not understand. Why would one wish to not have his own name? But I will do as he asks. I will speak to him as Lone One in the time to be.But I know that he is not Lone One. He is Acou, of whom Altauk once tells me.He is my father.“Maggie, can you do me a really big favor?”“I don’t know, Jason, I. He had a well trimmed beard, mustache, goatee and sideburns that was set off by his lightly sun kissed skin. It was all Joy could do not to run her fingers along his face. She inhaled the scent of him, wanting to commit it to memory. Just the scent of him made her heart beat a little faster, he smelled that good. When she looked up, his eyes were fixed on hers and there was a slight smile on his lips. For what seemed like minutes they stared into each others eyes. Joy was in a trance like.