B la Book 4 TimewalkerChapter 3
The night before: Jake had disappeared somewhere after a private little conversation with his wife, who was leading Alicia upstairs. "Where's Jake going to sleep?" Alicia wanted to know. "Don't worry about Jake," Béla said, non-commentally. "He'll be fine." They reached the top of the stairs and went right – the opposite direction from where the wild-looking, flaming young girl had appeared from and vanished into. A faint smell of scorched cotton came from that other...