"Yep. We definitely met out of time. It's weird in that way. Probably why the two of us never could really get properly into step." Martha smiled, because the old pain didn't hurt any longer. Thank goodness for that, really.

"But he definitely had two heart beats, but I couldn't ask him about it because he'd think I was mental. Or worse, Dr. Stoker would have thought I was. The last thing I wanted to do was get sectioned. So I put it out of my mind and made plans to have lunch with my sister Tish." There was a little bit of a wistful smile at the mention of her sister; she hadn't seen her in a very long time and would likely not see her for a very long time more.

"It was raining on Royal Hope, but where she was, it was bone dry. A mate then told me to look at the sky and when I did, I saw that it was raining up. The suddenly it was black as night."