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"Gee, thanks a lot," I ht red I hurried to add, "I’reat"

"You’ve been through a lot"

I sat at the kitchen table "Yeah, that week in a ha better and better But we have work to do, ith the bad guys on the loose and all"

He expertly cracked eggs, then beat theor than was probably necessary "I’ll take care of that Idris and I are due for a good shon one of these days"

"Is that so you’d like to happen?"

"A little of both"

It was a shon that I couldn’t help but think would go more s I repacked , and then Oalked me over to my apartment It was still a little early to expect Geht thingsin on thes sitting in the hallway My keys still fit in the locks, and when I opened the front door the place looked pretty much the same way it always had

"They haven’t kicked you out," Owen said

"Not yet"

"They won’t"

"You’ve seen that, too, I suppose?"

"No But you and your friends have been through a lot together I don’t think they’ll give up on you so easily Look at Rod andafter all these years and some worse stuff than you know about"

"Really?"

"Remind me to tell you sometime"