"One of those days," she said. "What's going on?" Wanted to call and see if you were going to be home tonight, thought we could talk some more." You c...lled to tell me you're going to call?" Wanted to make sure you were going to be home." Where else am I going to be on a weeknight?" Janie said. Her voice softened. "What's my baby doing?" Your baby is getting bigger." Send me a picture." You got it."Scott ended the call and looked at Red. "You heard her. Try to look cute."He snapped a photo and. You know, I never asked. I honestly don’t remember much from that day other than Father Buschmiller and Jennie. Elyse, were you there?”“I was. We were ten. I don’t even remember seeing you. I vaguely remember two altar boys, but my memory of that day is Jennie crying. And the American flag. Just like at Nick’s interment.”“That was your second one!” I said. “I didn’t even think about it!”“Jim was buried about fifty feet from where Nick is buried.”“And all these years, you never mentioned it and. ” “Not me, I’m just not interested. The boys we know are just immature. It’s much easier to be with my girlfriends.” I nodded along silently as they were speaking, pleasantly surprised at how mature my sisters had become over the last few months. “Well Eva, I certainly think it’s a good move to wait until the right guy comes along. I had horrible dating experiences until your brother. And Anna, that’s a viewpoint that is very…unique. But respectable and not one that you should be embarrassed. “Master, what about you?”“Master, what about you?”“I can’t, yet. I need to measure only my mana, and if I eat or do anything to recover my physical strength, it will skew the results. I’m in perfect condition to get the best benefits for stressing my mana, and since my heart and breathing didn’t stop, I don’t need to worry about suffocating.”That was how they spent the day. Noah would expend all of his mana through his illusion, Tin would wake him up with a potion, he’d check himself for.