Epilogue

From where she sat at the head of the Council fire alone, Quinn watched the scene unfold in front of her. Justin greeted his friends as they returned from their picnic. Already, the guys had forgotten most of the instances that had bothered them the past week, their memories erased of Sylvia and her doings. What was left, they took for dreams. Out of the four, only Carrie remembered and she never spoke a word, letting Justin figure out for himself when the best time would be for him to tell them who he really was. The five were once again together as a single group, a family. Things were good.