ONCE THOMI ARRIVED home, she straightway picked her way through the jungle of stuffed animals and vases of flowers that now littered the living room, and dropped upon the cream colored overstuffed sofa, falling instantly asleep. No nurses to bother her, no doctors to plague her, no pages booming out requesting some staff member or other call such and such a number. Nothing but blissful peacefulness.
Rikki asked her just as she was drifting off if she’d eaten anything so far that day and upon learning that she had, left her to her dreams. Which seemed to be mostly of Stephan and unlike those she’d had of Charley, quite pleasant.
It seemed to her that she’d only just begun to enjoy these when once more she heard Rikki addressing her. “Thomasyna! Thomasyna, you’ve got company!”
Thomi, unap
