The conductor placed our notched tickets right on the ridge of the seat so we would not be bothered again about the validity of their travel."Harry, h...ve you been to this safe house before?"I looked at "The Dancer" and told her the truth,"I am pretty sure I have but I really don't remember much about it. It was a long time ago when things were a whole lot different and I didn't have as many enemies." Will I be safe there?"I had to think about that for a minute because I didn't want to bullshit. “Would you admit to it if I asked?”She took my silence as confirmation.“I needed to shock you into acting.”“I still think you are crazy.”“It worked.”“And you have a scar.”“You can heal the scar, can’t you.”I grimaced at her correct guess. Even now, I was still healing the rest of her wound unconsciously. I didn’t want that perfect body, nor my friend, damaged, if I was being honest.“My head hurts, but the pain in my leg is mostly gone. Is that your doing, too?”“Everything is getting Healed.. The folks may be retiring early but were still young at heart and still frisky. I knew Mom and Dad were swinger's years ago but I never thought about Jason and Lisa in that light. I wondered if Jenny knew. It was one bit of information that I was going to keep to myself one of those things that you carry to the grave.The next day as Patti and I were headed back to KCC, I received a text inviting me back to the budget meeting. Because of the rushed adjournment yesterday, I went back for a short. “Even if it’s wrong,” I whispered.“Even,” he said.I closed my eyes and leaned in. My face pressed to his snout and felt the warmth, the slight wetness. Adoran tensed and my hands slipped along the sides of his ribcage, to his shoulders. I drew him in. “You’re wrong,” I murmured.“You don’t know that,” he whispered.“I’m not,” I said.“You can’t know that,” he said.I reached up, gripped the base of his muzzle with my whole hand. “Shut up, Adoran,” I said. “If we both love Thale, we can’t both be.