As soon as Caroline sat down, Kitty came over to bring her coffee. "Chicken cacciatore today," she said as she dropped into the seat opposite her. Not enough customers to keep her from sitting and talked to guests. Not today, not ever. "I would literally kill for wonton soup and a couple of egg rolls."

It wasn't hello, but they saw each other often enough that hello seemed superfluous. Why bother with hello when there was no such thing as goodbye. "I'm exactly sixteen hours closer to knowing I don't know anything about what's keeping us here than I did the last time you saw me." Which was in the neighborhood of twenty-four hours. "How go the plans for world domination?"