Thaddeus Magic was in my system still and hadn’t subsided, yet I did manage to sleep only to be awoken by a tiny body climbing over me and sitting half on me and half on her father. Opening my eyes I find Mara had climbed out of her cot, I don’t remember Orion coming back but it was obvious he had because here she was trying to pry her father’s eyelids open with her tiny fingers. Thaddeus rolls at her actions.

Mara jumps up and down her bottom hitting my hip as she excitedly tries to wake him. “Dad shower, shower” She squeals, prying his eyelid open and gazing in...