”“Pen...” we started at the same time. She nodded at me. I took a deep breath.“I’m having a terrible nightmare. Will you come to bed and hol... me?”“Yes. Yes, my baby. I’ll hold you. Let’s go brush our teeth.”“Fay?” I said as she crawled into bed.“What is it, Pen?” she asked innocently. She cuddled up against me and tugged at my pajama shirt. “Take this off. It’s scratchy.” My heart raced as I pulled off the offending article. It had never scratched before. But Fay had always worn a shirt to bed. You can jump in with me if ya like ?" I sighed in frustration before asking him "where are you going"He pointed up the road and said he was going to the next town over .. in the opposite direction to where i wanted to go .. i shook my head "no good .. im trying to go the other way" I ignored the drinken mans suggestion that i could go home with him and get a cab in the morning as i looked around desperately racking my brains for what to do next .. then i spotted the phone box across the road ... Having slowly begun to adapt to those changes, and to integrate some of it into my life, the peace of that adjustment was shattered again when we went to the pool and discovered that my future sister-in-law was a Mystic and Seer unmatched on Arbor except by her father, and perhaps not even then. The suggested scale of her Talent, and her pronouncements about Mat and I, and the way she seemed to separate those into the Mat and Sparrow parts and the Obsidian and River parts was scary and to be. This was perfect. Perfect!“You can’t live here. I can’t rent it to you. Here’s the key. I think there is a mattress and some dishes in our storage room. Aside from that, I wouldn’t get too comfortable here. I’ve got a twenty unit building right on Franklin Avenue that should be ready in September. As soon as it is, we’ll make one trip from this apartment, where you don’t live, to your new apartment. Don’t put anything more in here than I can get in one load.” He handed me his business card..