"I assure you, you aren't alone in that, although you perhaps have regrettably more experience with it," Hannibal answered. He found eggs, cheese, and enough vegetables for a respectable frittata and started on it, in between sips of coffee.

"These things seem to have been in control of our emotions more than anything else," he noted. "They didn't force us to do anything, merely encouraged different aspects of us. Some more desirable than others." That day of worry had been horrid.