To the Witch and the Angel. She could hear and see through him, as she'd done since becoming his Familiar. He simply didn't have control of his body anymore. But he could think. And he could hear her. All three of them could. Even Maureen. Alice realized immediately what had happened after Maureen removed the book. Maureen. So much had happened to her since becoming a Familiar. Used by Rodriguez. Used by Bonville. Alice felt her in the distance, weeping, unwilling to come to she and Darren as they sat on rocks beside the dark ocean shore in his mind. It was a place Alice had made for him when she realized they were trapped. At first it'd been difficult to rouse the representation of Darren internally. She'd found him, unconscious on the shore. So Alice had created light, and a place to sit. A place to coax him back to her. But that was as far as her power could go. A fire flickered in front of them, warming their feet. The cracking and popping wood was a comfort as the waking world's events played out like a projection screen over the forever setting sun.
