1933

"How much time do you actually spend there?" says Carl.  "At the refuge." "That is the hardest part to explain to you guys", says Kenny.  "That place, and our lord, are completely out of time...or out of time as we know time.  I don't think I'm making myself very clear, but, apart from a period after I was thrown from the Lion's Gate Bridge, I have always been in Duncan.  My first memory was with some woman named Kim who apparently already knew me.  We were seated in a coffee shop in Duncan and drawing up plans for going into business together selling flowers and plants.  I already had my mother's condo I was living in, and did not have a clue how I got there.  Just after we bought the business together, I asked Kim what she knew, and she confirmed that she was  third party cosigning with me for the condo with my mom, but beyond that wasn't saying anything.  Nothing at all.  She simply said she couldn't tell me anything and ordered me to never ask her again.  But that's when the dreams all started, the first dreams I had since the dreams I was having while in a coma, trying to instruñct you, Chris, about my journal." "Those were dreams about being in the refuge?"  I ask. "That is correct, only Carl and Erik were also in the dream along with Amaris and a whole whack of other people,  Then at five this morning Amaris is on the phone with me to say she was at the front door of my building and that we had to get started..." "Wait a minute", says Carl, "What was she doing there at five am. How did she get there?" "She said she spent the night at a friend's nearby, but didn't go into detail, and when Amaris tells me something in that tone, I know not to probe." "So, we took the first ferry to Tsawwassen, then drove into vancouver, parked the car and walked around for a while." "How did you find us?" say I. "We weren't looking for you, but we wanted to stop for coffee, so we wandered into this place where you guys happened to be sitting, and we both remembered the dreams and seeing you all dressed exactly the way you were and the conversation you and I had, Chris, but then Amaris felt called to her parents' home in Richmond, and now, just in the last few minutes I have pulled out of the amnesia."