I could tell by their expressions boring through me, that questions were piling up. Brick on brick on brick, like their building a very unstable wall. "Lily showed me an earlier memory," I confessed. Their expressions shifted from awe to dumbfounded. After a while of uncomfortably silence, I decided it's time to shatter it, and my question is bound to do just that. "What are we going to do about all the gateways in this place?" Max's muscles tensed as his back stiffened. "Relax," I said as my fingers lingers upon his chest. He tried to shy away from my touch. I acknowledged him that I'm past the thing of being afraid of him. I assured him that no harm would come my way, while I stay at his side. This seems to calm him down slightly.
We made ourselves comfortable on the sofas in the livin
