Chapter 25I woke with a slight headache, but my memory was more-or-less intact. My experience with Kat had left me exhausted and confused. The exhaustion I could deal with, the confusion was something else entirely. I took a cold shower, not only to wake me up, but also to help clear the cobwebs. As I got my things together, the night before ran through my mind. I didn't get a bad vibe from Kat for the most part, but there was something else. She'd definitely had some sort of hold over me, one I couldn't pinpoint, and it scared me. Kat claimed to be part longaevus, and her power to persuade—because the dancing and the interlude at her motel was definitely involuntary persuasion—was something I'd seen and experienced from another, very dangerous, longaevus, (his name was Edgar; Aris killed
