The trip out to the Door involved Tank showing me how to, as he called it, "fill my skin with Nimala's blessing". We ran the whole way to the Door, not like running because we were scared or anything, but running like it was the biggest natural high ever.
I set aside the thought that maybe Tank only liked me for this "aura of serenity" thing, and caught a sense of stomach curdling fear and despair from Tank. From the way Aiden talked about Luna vradins and all, I figured he had no plans to see me walk away on a permanent basis, but that didn't mean that I couldn't go home.
It took Tank a moment to recognize Zoe with her hair turned to shades of firelight reflected off wood, but her Peace burst over him at almost the same instant, joy and relief and a happiness that damn near had him knock-kneed before her.
