ooh, I'm so glad I stayed up !:) one disadvantage to being in the Midwest is you often post after I've gone to bed (unless I'm visiting my 'rents in Eugene, of course) but this was SO worth waiting for.

*guh*

and I'm intrigued by how things are slipping out... the couple that Rose saw at the restaurant, these hints of mental joining starting to crop up... did he take the piece of coral with him on the trip ?

as always... I await the next chapter. :)