Danny featured in virtually all of my dreams, so I’d be none the wiser if he didn’t venture into them with me. Since I’d found out I was pregnant I didn’t remember any of my dreams and put it down to vagueness.
“Define weird,” I said.
“The last one I hitched a ride on had armies of babies — boys and girls — ascending to heaven and killing angels, or descending to the pit, killing demons. They feasted on the flesh of immortals, yet left everything on earth untouched.”
“Oh,” I said, “that is pretty weird. Must be the hormones.”
At the moment I could blame hormones for anything. It was great to have a ready-made excuse for anything slightly out of the ordinary.
“Perhaps we should stay at the La’miere for a couple of days. We’re going to need somewhere for all your purchases to be deliver
