It gave her her shape. It was feminine, but not dainty, as I’d describe my mother. That strangely had me wondering what Violet’s mother looked lik... – my mind was drawn back to a conversation from Wesley and I’s circle of mates. Wes had gotten himself dumped the second time that year, and Brian was trying to cheer him up by saying, ‘I’m pretty sure you dodged a bullet. You shouldn’t worry about it.’ ‘What?’ Wes had replied. ‘Haven’t you seen her mum?’ ‘Mate. What?’ There were stupid snickers. The brickwork was in good condition considering this was the main weather side, but I could see that some slates had been lost from the roof and that surely meant that there would be water damage inside. The front was almost hidden under a virginia creeper which had probably protected the brickwork.As we slowly approached the front door Belle gripped my arm.“Bron said that no one stays in there for very long, they say the atmosphere is so strong, so depressing that they just have to get. ”Adam looked pretty dapper himself with a new regimental-striped collar. I’d called Rye ahead of time; they agreed to allow my service dog to accompany me. Dropping Vanessa’s name may have helped.The floor manager smiled, “Hi, Winter, ready to be seated?”“I am, thank you.”Chip looked over the top of the menu, “Champagne?”“Why not?” Uber. And Lyft for the return flight.I’m not sure who generated more attention on our parade to the corner table — Adam or me. But I definitely had Chip’s eye. Eyes.. “You’re kidding?” Roxanne said with an amazed look.“It’s hard to tell, but they appear to be giving off a broad-spectrum quantum resonance emission which might affect just what it is a Higher Power ... or Theurgist can affect them with.”“What of ordinary magic?” I asked.“Might work as it’s not frequency related generally, but you’re extremely unlikely to survive getting close enough to one to find out.”“Null?”“Depends again on how powerful, plus you’ll have several hundred thousand adelshaut to.