Chapter Nine
One would think that with almost all of eternity to play with, waiting would become easier, but as the minutes stretched past, Zahrias began to wonder if he would go mad trying to figure out what might have happened to Julia and her party. At one point Jessica slipped out of the office at the museum, saying she’d better scare up some food, since it was getting late and they all needed to eat something. All Zahrias could do was think that he certainly had no appetite at the moment. Even so, he had to acknowledge to himself that she was only trying to help.
She returned sometime later with a bag of those odd bread and meat inventions that mortals referred to as sandwiches, as well as a big insulated container of coffee. “Since we don’t know how long this is going to take,” she
