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my bag and I hand one to him.
    “After everything that you have suffered in the last hundred years or so I think you deserve this.” I flick a lighter that I yank from my pocket and he inhales. I witness the bliss in his eyes as he enjoys the expensive cigar. “You adjust well Keyan. You speak differently than you did when we first met.”
    “It is how we adapt.” He pauses and inhales another puff from the cigar. “And it was pretty easy to convince you of what I am. Why do you believe me?”
    “I guess I believe you…” I pause and take the whole story in. I do believe him. “Because it’s stranger than fiction. Who could make that up?” I pick up the book and begin to read what I can understand. The more I read the clearer it becomes. I read how The Order had gadgets to detect the life-ring in their eyes and how they sever it. It is really terrible how this group of people are threatened by people who were created differently than the rest of us. I wonder if The Order still exists.
    “I know you are probably wondering why I decided to reveal all of this to you the day before you leave.”
    “I don’t know. I think that maybe we’ve become great friends and you didn’t want to hide it from me any longer. I do ask a whole lot of questions.”
    “You are right. You do.” He smiles and I am impressed. He hasn’t gave me happy since the day that we met. “Actually I have an ulterior motive.”
    “Really? Don’t tell me…you want to make me one of you?”
    “No.” he giggles. “I want to go back to America with you and find me a bride. It is time that I reintroduce myself to the world. But I will change my name so the Order does not find me. If they are still in operation.”
    “Sounds great. But…You don’t have a passport.” I bite my thumb nail and think. “Wait, I can sneak you onto my dad’s private plane. I have to fit you inside of my trunk though.” I laugh and he is definitely interested. “What are you going to do when you get there?”
    “I can manage. I assure you. I have eluded and evaded for many years.”
    “Okay I will get rid of the clothes in my trunk. I will place a cover over you after we are on the plane. Be at the cabin by dawn.”
    “I cannot believe that I will be leaving this country behind me.”
    “America here he comes.” I say as I start to pull out dinner.

Chapter 7
    I awake before dawn and it all seems like a big dream or made for TV movie. This man has been alive longer than anything or anyone. He is vintage with a capital V. I begin to pack some of my things. I have to leave a lot of my fave winter things behind. It doesn’t matter because when I get to California I’m going to need new things anyway. I could always use a reason to go shopping, what girl doesn’t love shopping? I’m going to miss spending time with my elderly friend. But at least with him in the US, I can see him again. I am beyond nuts for attempting to aid and abet an alien, in more than one sense of the word, and one time fugitive into the country that I have to hide. At least my dad’s plane lands at a private airport in North Carolina. We are almost never searched. So if it goes south my parents have to be blameless. I hear a number of taps on my window and I realize that this is really happening.
    “Good morning McKenna.” Keyan whispers as I slide the window open quietly and carefully. He climbs inside and he has a ton of things with him. He actually used the cover that I gave him to fill with things that I assume he doesn’t want to leave behind.
    I carefully look him over and the clothes that I took him fits him nicely. I actually was able to braid his hair. The braid gathers at the nape of his neck and swings at his bottom. The god forsaken beard is still as wild as it was the day we met, but without the extras in it. He is clean and looks slightly together.
    “Good grief. I have to hide you and all of your…things? What is all of this?” I say snapping from my thoughts