"Same time as the others," Krem said. The sand shifted under his feet and he laughed, setting his foot down before he stumbled and knocked them both over. "Yours was the first of the images I got that day. It was--weekend after the Fourth? I had a fight with a doctor the day before. But I'd been planning for ages."

Krem was suddenly aware of how that might sound or look, still a bit raw from shifts with Adaline and Gannicus. So he smiled a little. "I would have gotten it even if we weren't--you mean a lot to me, Thomas. One of my beat friends here."