"That was nice," Jan said. She and I were walking slowly back toward the hotel, and she had her arm through mine.
"I was surprised that Tammy came, but I'm glad she did, so she could see how Vicki signed the certificate."
"Did you see her reaction, when she saw it?"
I shook my head. "I didn't want to make her self-conscious. I made it a point to be looking somewhere else."
"Very thoughtful."
"Did you see it?"
"No, I didn't look, for the same reason, but I felt it. She came close to crying, though of course nobody would have seen it if she had." She smiled. "They'll never talk about it, you know what a couple of tough cookies they are, but they both know it, and that's what counts."
"And I assume that's why you told Tammy that we all had to be there."
"I didn't know exactly what Vicki would do, but I could tell she was getting ready to do something. And I thought it would be a good idea to have it happen before you all leave."
"And a wedding is kind of a natural time."
She nodded.
"You're predicting things all over the place these days," I commented after a moment. "Are you having a lot of visions?"
She shook her head. "No more than usual. I'm just more relaxed about talking about it. I used to try to hide it, because I thought it made me a cheat as a detective. Now I don't care so much about that. I still like to solve mysteries, don't get me wrong, but I'm just not so picky about whether or not I'm 'playing fair.' Not that we have a lot of mysteries to solve these days."
"Except the bigger mysteries, like how we're going to eat and how we're going to get out of here and where we're going to go and live the rest of our lives."
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