21 THE COMING
Tom and Karla had joined the others at the courtyard table. Everybody was there, laughing and relaxing. The conversation was currently on the subject of funny events in each person’s history. Charlie was speaking.
“I remember when I first met Rafe at the University on his worldline. He was curious and a great learner, but he was a lousy student,” Charlie chuckled. “I remember the first time he caught wind of the idea of walking the worldlines. He was full of questions. When I started trying to get him to practice meditation and visualization, he almost left because he thought I was trying to pick him up!”
“So how did you convince him you were on the up and up?” Markus asked. Everyone around the table leaned a bit closer.
“Oh, I slept with his girlfriend,” Charlie laughed.
