“I need to think, but you need to teach me to navigate the labyrinth first.” Rising to her feet she beckoned me with a nod of her head and I follo...ed her through air until we where back inside the swirling blue maze. “It’s a matter of mind in this plane, you see you must remember the place you wish to go to without letting other thoughts inside. Something about your destination has to drive you on, an object there, or something that happened once in that particular place. You see?” I nod an. "Lita, this line holds us to the dock. If we let go too early, the wind will shove us to the other side, against that other boat. I am going to set it up for you." I uncleated the line, then took a turn around a winch. "Hold onto this line. It will tug, but you can hold it. When I tell you to let it go, just unwind it from around this winch and throw it on the dock." This is a line. That is a winch. There is the dock. I am learning." She smiled. "I can do this."She did exactly as told. As I. " I glanced away, embarrassed."You're the grown-up version of the friend I made all those years ago. You've grown up, but you haven't changed much."I snorted. "Yes I have." Not in the ways that matter," he quietly disagreed."So what about you?" I asked, sipping my wine. "Who are you? Why are you here?" Pretty much as you see me," he answered."No no, you don't get off that easily," I protested.He chopped a carrot, then set down the knife. "I started getting wanderlust when I was twenty five.. 'Bye." She sounds a bit fierce," observed Joanna slightly dubiously."Shyness, darling. You wait. She'll be gentle and friendly when you meet her, I promise." Hope so." Know so."The following two weeks went by much like the previous one. Simon was unable to resist driving up to Putney both Wednesdays. Needless to say Joanna was thrilled. They decided to take both their cars to the Carstairs' so that Joanna could go straight on up to London. Simon would guide her to the M40.Joanna was staggered.