14 Where Time Grows Younger The group had spent the night in varying emotional states. Charla was extremely frightened at what the future would bring to her. Markus and Vera were taking everything in stride, more or less, and were looking more and more like a couple. As for Tom and Karla, they were ecstatic at having found each other. In their memories, they had been seeking each other for centuries. Neither of them knew how that was possible, but it certainly felt true. They had already got to the naked wrestling stage. Their clothes fell off them virtually as soon as they found themselves behind a lockable door. Tom wasn’t sure how to handle the whole Veritasia thing, but he thought that he could figure something out that did not end with a view of her dead body. Even with the single-m

