It was no- one's fault missing the link - it just seemed to appear out of nowhere.


"Bad things happen to good people", Jake thought.

He still had problems resolving this misfortune. Where was fair in a Universe of plenty, he queried. Who dictates what happens and when....and why could it not happen to me, instead ?

There were many more unanswered questions where that came from, but experience had taught him that if he was patient, revelation would just be a moment or two coming.....

Trouble was, so were the Marked, and a moment was far too short a space to take preventative action. He just had to rely on the only thing that had never failed him...his intuition.

A pounding headache denied him direct access at this precise moment in time, so he pulled up a chair and waited......

the wait felt like aeons


and aeons were what awaited Jake

and this wait would be one he could never have intuited......