We told her that would great and we promised to behave ourselves while Vicki was here and Becca said that would be very kind of us. She asked if Vicki...could stay in the guest room and we said that would be fine. Becca is 22 and her sister Vicki is 19. The two were close growing up but after Becca graduated high school and moved away from home four years earlier, the sisters have only seen each other a couple of times and they longed to spend some time together. Vicki arrived this last Saturday. He said. How much longer do you think as an estimate? I asked. 2 or 3 days maybe. Adrien said lifting Chris spirits. Cool! he chimed. Why is there such a rush on this? Adrien asked. Its not really a rush I just want to know how long we have to get every thing organized and ready to go. I mean shit dude itll take us a few days to get everything packed ready and down to the ship to load it. I explained. Ok I see the logic in that now. I guess maybe we should start preparing as soon as possible.. This wasn'tgoing to be an easy conversation for Tricia but a trouble shared seemed tobe called for.Fiona knew of the arrangement forced upon Tricia by Sally and knew of thehold that Sally had over her. She had talked with Tricia about Kevinbeing a bit of a pain just being there but that it was only a temporarything she hoped. They walked slowly, arms linked and Tricia began toreveal the situation that had unfolded. There was clearly some disbeliefon Fiona's behalf of the reasoning behind it. If you let a bit of magic energy flow into it can sense where the other mark that is linked to yours is to within a dozen or so meters. When you first disappeared outside the palace that night I tried to use it to find you, but it was like you weren't even on the planet anymore. You were just gone…'Richard opened his mouth to say something but suddenly the door back into the semi-warm school opened and a small, lithe blonde girl stepped into the snow with an exhausted and bored look on her.