A sixth sense? That would be nice, but if Anise had one of those, she wished it worked better at detecting danger, or money, or something useful like that.

Ilia was as happy as she expected to hear the news. As the woman hugged her, Anise felt that initial wave of relief rushing over her again. She really managed to avoid a horrific situation... A few days ago, it would have been hard to imagine that she'd be back to smiling and joking with people again so soon.

Anise returned her smile as she answered the question. "Claude's better too. And Guy's as reliable as always!" Well, she was a little worried about Claude after he slept through the night, but it was too early to start alarming people about that. "How about you? What have you been up to?"