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"U to? And you’re not a mess," Chloe assured her "Believe me, Gwen and I have been in our share of scrapes and felt bedraggled ourselves, and you’re not bedraggled Is she, Gwen?"

Gwen s in the full throes of nicotine withdrawal, and after a week on a bus with a group of senior citizens, falling into a cave, and landing on a body"

"And then getting tossed back a few centuries, with no idea of what’s going on," Chloe agreed "Naked, too, weren’t you?"

Gwen nodded wryly

Gabby blinked

"I gave you nantly " ’twas ne’er my intention to send you back bare as a wee bairn, Gwen"

Gwen gave her husband a loving glance "I know," she said softly

The one called Dageus tossed his head impatiently "All of which is neither here nor there To whom do you speak that we canna see, lass?"

Tossed back a few centuries? Naked? What? Good heavens, were these people like Adam’s half-Fae son, displaced in time? Her own life, her little corner of the Tri-State was looking increasingly nor day

"Tell the, Gabby nodded "I have one of the, erfairies here with me--"

"Tuatha Dé," Ada me sound like Tinkerbell"

"One of the Tuatha Dé," she a him sound like Tinkerbell, but, believe me, no one could ever confuse Adam Black with Tinker--"

"Adaeus exclai