10 — ProofAs they ate the sausages and eggs that Jen had made, Jen sorted through the mail while Brigid worked her way through the morning Iris-Intelligencer — as always, reading from the back to the front. She made comments about everything that had changed — higher prices, the planned expansion of Sundown Valley (a risky proposition, giving the magical instability of the land surrounding the town, the racing results (most of which Jen had written before her day off), Felicia Avaya speaking calmly and calmingly about the latest political crisis in Washington.
All the while, a twenty-year-old picture of Brigid herself, taken just after the Battle of the Mountain, smiled from the front page — her photographic self, which looked scarcely younger than the young woman behind the paper, seemin
