She had no words on seeing me. Meeting a friend after a long time. She composed herself gave me a relatively tighter hug and asked me How i was doing....I sensed something unusual. We have known each other in and out. Not that i never hugged her before. This was something different. She asked me to come in. I enquired on the whereabouts of her flat mates. She said everyone went to their respective native places for diwali celebrations. And she also mentioned that she stayed back as she had some. ‘We need to go. Where’s Lucy?’ ‘I am here. What happened?’ Lucy said coming from the kitchen. Brian pulled her aside, smiling softly. ‘Will you at least stay here with Leigh until we return with more information?’ Lucy felt a jolt of electricity shoot right through her. ‘What’s wrong with me?’ She was staring now. ‘Sure’ ‘Damn it! Did I just purr?’ Brian remained by her side looking intently into her eyes. ‘Breath’ He reminded himself. ‘Okay. We’ll be in touch…’ He said squeezing her hand.. There had to be something about him. Something about Zane Grey that was special although he didn’t know what. Zane…what was his last name? He couldn’t remember.But he knew he would go to his office and put in a full day of work. He’d go home and Gloria would greet him with a hug and a kiss. She’d call out, “Girls, you daddy’s home and his two youngest girls would come bounding down the stairs screeching. Esme, the fourteen-year-old would shyly hold back but then say, “Guess what happened at. '' Amy stood on the corner of Giman and San Pablo, you know where that is, almost in Albany. She became a pillar of fire, sixty or seventy feet high, scaring the immortal crap out of everyone who happened to be cruising down San Pablo at that moment! She did that for ten or fifteen seconds, long enough for me to get the idea. I closed my eyes and fell, prostrate, onto the pavement. When I opened my eyes again, she was s*******n years old, red-haired Amy again, sitting at the table, tapping her.