She wondered what would happen next. Whatever it was, they were ready."Passengers and crew travelling to Coffs Harbour on flight BJ69, your flight is ...ow ready for boarding. Passengers with special needs and those travelling First Class, please identify yourselves to crew members for priority boarding."Celeste's voice over the PA system was unmistakable. Spike looked at Bob sitting opposite him in the anteroom. "BJ69," Spike laughed, shaking his head slowly. "See? I told you this would be worth. Sitting down at the table, I looked at Kiskan. It was amazing looking into her eyes. They were bottomless pools of emerald green. If they say the eyes were the windows to the soul, then I’d be ok being a peeping tom around Kiskan.There was this calming peace that enveloped me while I was sitting there.“Barnim? Hello Barnim. BARNIM, are you ok?”“Sorry. I just got lost in thought.”“What was so interesting? You kind of zoned out.”“I thought you could read my mind.”“I stopped after earlier Barnim. We had too many to take only one car, and my aunt drove when everyone was going out together unless she told my uncle he was driving. I told my aunt that I didn’t know where we were going, so my uncle came with me. Ellen decided she liked the idea of sitting between the two boys on the drive over, even if all three were still having to use car seats.I waited for my aunt to get out of sight before asking my uncle if he could still drive a stick.“Here. You’re driving,” I told my uncle as I got in. Real estate, nursing...I didn't really know what the hell kind of degree I'd wind up with someday. But that didn't really matter to me. Not the way my sister matters.If I jogged the whole way home from NSCC, I could be waiting at the curb as the mailman drove up in front of our little house in his rotting Jeep with the steering wheel on the wrong side.When I run like that in the summer the sweat drips off me. But this was winter. A deep inhalation of frigid air felt like a thousand tiny daggers.