She'd confused name order; that was what she got for only preparing to visit Europe. "Thank you, Zouichi, and you must call me Anwei. Horanckk has been with me since I was thirteen years six months old." There'd been a time when she could give the day and hour as well. "He has always been my best friend, and not having him here, talking to me" she touched her fingertip to her right earlobe "is like losing a part of my brain."

"And Chosen was the phrase that Stacy used? The process by which the Divine Threads somehow point us out, or pull us up, and we are taken from our destroyed universes and brought aboard her." Supposedly, she did not add aloud.