When an unexpected memory from one of the other Moments woke me up a little while ago, I caught my breath, and sat up on the bed. Then heard Emma in the kitchen. I hauled myself in and made coffee. She was in one of the robes Shay had given us prepping for breakfast. I sat down and we had a nice chat.
“I like those jammies,” she said.
I smiled. “Liza said when they unloaded the dresser and counted, Shay’s mom had sent her 34 sets of pajamas and nighties in the short time she’s lived here.”
“I s’pose her mom means well… Do you think anyone else is up for church? Last Advent today.”
“I heard Addison flush a while back. She’ll probably be over soon to help as usual.”
Emma returned to dicing peppers and onions, so I assumed it was going to be omelet day.
She chopped a little, then said, “So, I guess we just sit around and wait for Paul to tell us we’re about to get dazed so the Off-line Moment can Translocate and do a mission…”
“Yeah… It makes me nervous. How are we going to keep our jobs?”
“Well… what with Traveling Friends, LLC and the money from The Agency coming in… You know Pay It Forward Society still pays our rent to Tom every month… I never did figure out why I got money from Aux Autres…”
I laughed. “You probably held the door open for someone at some store. We hardly have to do anything… But, Will said Merritt, Devon, Liza, and I should all get our Engineering Licenses, then we could move upstate and open our own firm… do small jobs around the Time-Travel missions.”
Emma chopped a little more, then said a little sheepishly, “Hannah, do you ever find memories from the Off-line Moment?”
“Like what? I mean… you know it’s not alway clear which Moment the memory is from…”
Emma wouldn’t make eye contact. “These are… Memories of being… a wife… and having a husband… and…”
She trailed off, but I knew what she was talking about; I had just been woken up by one. “Oh… yeah… uh… marriage memories…”
Emma smiled. “They seem really nice, though…”
I nodded. “That’s an understatement.”
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