When it cleared I was in a hotel room, lying on a bed. Amy was awake, pacing. When she saw I was awake, she grinned. "You passed out on stage."

Felix and I shared a glance and he grinned knowingly. I looked down and I was in the red crushed velvet gown with flowing sleeves and a train.

"Karma, you understand Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is."

Amy looks over to him. "Petyr Baelish on Game of Thrones said that. What does that have to do with now?"

Felix looked to me. "Do you have your totem." I did. Buddy Jesus figurine. Yes, I have a miniature one from Dogma. I know its weight perfectly. I believe in him as well as others. Why not?

"Yes. Then you know you are awake right now." He commented.

"How much of earlier was the dream?" I asked, hoping my confession of love wasn't part of the inception. "You don't remember me coming in, Tom introducing me?" He seemed worried.

Amy stood at the window looking out on the Manhattan skyline. "I remember Tom standing up and us fist bumping. Then Amy passed out."

Felix shook his head. "Tom warned me that you'd have these issues. Shane invited Sabrina. So she appeared. He took the opportunity to reset her here. It worked. However, after you sang Hush, Hush with Gwen, you passed out behind the stage. Reagan and I brought you up here.

I looked up and this rail thin woman with a dusky complexion and straight brown hair looked me over. Her cheekbones were sharp yet her expression seemed kind. "I'm Gwen's personal doctor. We got you up here. And then Felix here suggested that Amy, him and you go under to fix what is going on. "

"What is going on?"

Shane stood up and with this amused grin, said "Apparently, you are a mermaid."

Amy walked over to me, and hugged me. "Apparently, we live for centuries." We? Suddenly, it all made sense. The tubes, Tom, the sudden blessings, everything cleared up.

"So, Reagan, this is all Tom's doing?"

"No. You're an old house. The only lost high house. It's why Sabrina hated you. It's why your family suffered for so long. I gave you your tail back."

This time the room when black. When I woke up on the bed, Amy laid beside me. "I had a dream."

"About being a mermaid?" She asked stroking my hair.

"Yes." I guess fear radiated. "It's just a dream." She said then kissing my forehead. "I love you. We got into Clement early. We can graduate at the end of this year instead of next. We have each other and Tom promised this was the last of his visits." I frowned.

"You like him?" she asked.

"He's always been nice. It's everything else that's crazy."

"No crazy now. Just a flight home to everyone going on about how you sung Hush Hush in Times Square on New year's eve in front of millions. Everyone was stunned when Gwen introduced you instead of singing 'Firelight'."

She sat up. "Plane's is ready when you are. Everyone else is already over there."

I got up and went into the bathroom. In my White H&M purse was my Buddy Jesus statue pointing and giving the thumbs up. On the base is written 'Deus caritas est' in silver and a carved K. It's real. I'm awake.

I walk out to Amy in this white gown that ran to her feet, holding this furry coat that swallowed her arm. On her phone was the video. I could hear myself sing. "Shane took your gear back with him. Noah carried it actually."

"Whoa!" I said looking around.

"I know. I wish you could remember more. Still time to go. New Year, New things."

As we walked out of the hotel room over Times square dragging luggage I still don't remember, I look over at Amy blissfully happy. "I love you, soul mate."

"Me too. Me too."