About an hour later I woke up with a start, and to this day I don’t know if I was dreaming or if it was my instinct's, but when I woke Robyn was no ...onger next to me, I assumed she was just in the toilet so I just layed there and waited for her to return hoping I would get lucky, after 5 minutes she stihadn’t’t’tt returned and I started to get curious as to where she could be so I got out of bed and not bothering to dress walked out of the bedroom door in to the hall way the bathroom. I had always enjoyed being naked at night in the rain, usually in Black Crow Woods with one of my brothers. The storm was almost overhead, and the heavy rain lashed my nakedness, it was as if I was being punished for being a bad girl.I had passed the point of no return, not that I had any intention of going back to the safety of my flat. I fumbled with the garage keys, it took a couple of minutes to find the right one. The emergency lighting was on, the whole place was bathed in a soft red. I didn't have a clue how to get him out of that funk." Any idea why he's in one in the first place?" Elspeth asked, just grateful that she'd been able to get out of playing reasonably quickly. Shawna just shrugged."I'd ask him, but I'm not sure it wouldn't send him back... he'll work it out soon." Marcus reappeared and settled onto the couch beside Shawna, leaving Hope with the stool they'd brought through to put in front of the keyboard."Well, my work here is done." Hope smiled, seeing them. Well, it is reassuring."There was a pause before Al sheepishly thought, "I still think I should apologize to Collette, Bill, and Bran. Just remember that I'm not completely at fault, but please forgive me for not stopping it. Not that I could have stopped it. I don't think a melding of a hundred Companions could have stopped it, much less the four we had present on this side of the veil. These other three don't know how to meld yet, so it wouldn't have been possible in the first place. It.