A few other things.” she responded, “By the way when do you have to fly back to San Diego?”“I leave this Thursday, around noon, I think.” I ...esponded.“Oh.” was her only response.The rest of the drive was pretty mundane, Courtney really seemed preoccupied. We finally pulled into her drive way about three o’clock that afternoon. I took my bag from the trunk and tossed it in the back of my truck. I grabbed Courtney’s bag and followed her into the house. We found her parents sitting on the back. Where the brows were once flat anduniform, they had been thinned, arched slightly. It drew even moreattention to her eyes. Making them seem more open. Her makeup had beendone, tastefully. Her reflection practically screamed 'GOOD GIRLCHEERCOMING QUEEN'."Gimme an 'A'," Robb said sarcastically."Hmmm, cheerleader, we'll have to do that one. There, now that that'sdone, I can get started. Robb, Could you set up the webcam?"Robb looked puzzled. "Yeah." He said, cocking a sculpted eyebrow. Heran his. Part of me wants to hit my absent companion. I came because Kieran was in trouble, and now I'm being made to wait. We eat breakfast in a slightly uncomfortable silence and Draven takes me shopping. With my new body, the clothes I brought with me don't really fit that well anymore. I'm kitted out with the full set, t-shirts, jeans, jacket, a full black suit with three shirts and four ties and new shoes, black leather boots and a long black coat. It is hot in the city and we spend half an hour in. The lava plain that Jake and Béla was hiking on right now spread all the way from Mount Rainer to the outskirts of Tacoma. That city was destroyed not by lava, but by the terrible, suffocating, superheated dust clouds that roiled down from the erupting mountain. Most of Tacoma had been dug out and repopulated in the last half-century, but it was a different city, now, more ... subdued, perhaps, and dirty – sullen and dirty."It's hard to believe that this much solid rock covers the forests I.