I shook my head. “What is it you do not believe? Are you scolding me for mixing my historical periods and locals?” Ewan chuckled. “I was mixing metaphors. Similes, actually, as I am well aware the Renaissance had little to do with anything Grecian. I trust fully, Pennsylvania, that you are as well.” Ewan paused, perhaps for a response. “Or is it that you wish me to go?” he asked, when none was offered. I gestured “no” again. “Are you okay? Are you safe and fed? Do they harm you? Are you held against your will?” I nodded and then moved my head side to side. “Too many disparate questions.” Ewan smiled. “For the moment, do you need to be rescued?” I answered with a twist of my chin. “I’ve read your writings,” Ewan said. My mouth fell agape. My brows shot up in bewilderment and disbe

