Kit woke up in the middle of the night aware that he was alone in bed. Thinking it extremely strange and wondering where his bedfellow had gone he got up and went looking for her. Robyn very rarely got up in the night and due to her current course of medication would sleep very deeply.
Checking the bathroom Kit didn't find Robyn there and so he moved silently downstairs. Again there was no sign of her and he left the house thinking she may have gone outside for some reason. The reason eluded him, sunrise wasn't for another two hours at least and there we no stars out. Robyn on occasion when she did get up in the night would look at the stars or watch the sun rise. Two hobbies that had formed after she'd regained her sight.
Scanning the darkness with his eyes Kit saw something moving and headed over to it. He knew he was heading towards the garden and guessed that the figure was Robyn. If it was her the surprise had been blown, in a way this was best as the builders were coming in the morning to build the pond and he'd not thought of a way to keep Robyn occupied.
Within a few minutes walking at a quick pace Kit made it to the garden and could distinguish Robyn sitting down in the centre. He went over to her and didn't know whether to disturb her from her obvious reverie or sit beside her and wait.
"I thought he'd come to me. There's nothing here." Robyn spoke softly in an almost hypnotised tone.
Kit frowned a little, "do you really think that's a good idea? I take it he's spoken to you before?"
"Yes. It was different from when I spoke to daddy or Detective Miller. I was here in the garden yet not here."
"I don't follow."
Robyn looked up at Kit, "When you thought I was sleeping I was in a trance of some kind. He brought me into it. He told me he needed to speak to me, to tell me something."
"It wasn't anything bad was it? He wasn't messing with your head like Lily did was he?"
"No. All of the harshness had gone from his voice. It was different, altered. He looked different too, almost like he was at rest. His character had changed as well, he seemed almost sane."
Kit raised both eyebrows, "Creepy Cain sane? I suppose anything can happen. What did he say?"
"He said that he didn't blame me for his death when I blamed myself. I said some things to him before he let me go and he repeated those things before doing what he did. He tried to warn me about something, danger that's coming some time. He seemed adamant that I stay alive when this danger hits. I wanted him to come to me so that he might explain further. He couldn't finish telling me because he had to go back." Robyn explained.
Kit nodded taking in everything that Robyn had said. He knew it was foolish to discredit anything she said because she was always right about these things. As confused as he was about all this he thought it best to discuss with the others in the morning. If something was coming they'd need to know.
Robyn made to stand up but something stopped her.
She felt a sharp pain run across her throat and hot blood spill out. Her throat seized up and she couldn't breathe. She was choking.
Kit swore when he realised what was happening. It was the same thing that had happened when Robyn had seen and felt what had happened to Robbie when Lily stabbed him. Not knowing what else to do Kit dropped himself onto the ground and tired to help Robyn. She was extremely distressed and fighting for air.
Pixel and Stephanie were woken up by an alarm going off on Pixel's computer. It was the same alarm that he'd set up to alert him of high psychic energy levels in the area. Jumping out of bed Pixel ran to his computer and got the cameras to fix a position on the source of the energy. He gasped when he saw Kit giving Robyn the kiss of life, there was evidently something going very wrong. Telling his fiancée to stay where she was he ran out of the house.
"She's not breathing. She was fine then she started choking. I think she picked up what happened to Cain, we have to do something." Kit said when he noticed Pixel kneeling beside him.
Pixel thought quickly, "perhaps if we move her away from the psychic energy she'll be ok? It's the only thing I can think of."
Kit nodded. It was the only option. Giving Robyn two more breaths he scooped her up in his arms and ran out of the garden. Pixel's theory was right. The moment Kit had left the place where Robyn was sitting she started breathing again and the further away he got the more she came back to herself.
Robyn sat up and rubbed her throat and head. Her throat felt a little sore and her head was throbbing. Looking up she noticed Kit and Pixel looking at her with relief in their eyes. She remembered everything that had happened and was left with no more answers than before about what Cain meant.
Fumbling in his pocket Pixel pulled out his quantum 6000 and scanned Robyn with it. He'd picked it up on the way out in case he needed it. Thankfully Robyn was fine and both men helped her up. The three walked back to their houses at a leisurely pace in silence. It was still extremely late and they could talk about what had happened in the morning.
When they got home Kit told Robyn to go inside and promised her he'd catch her up after he'd spoken to Pixel. Robyn did as she was told and left the two men alone.
"She's going to be ok to go back in the garden isn't she?" Kit asked.
Pixel nodded, "she only seems to pick these 'traces' up once so I can't see any problem. We should think ourselves lucky it happened sooner rather than later, at least it's out of the way now."
"I hope you're right. Thanks for your help, mate. Sorry to get you out of bed."
"Blame the dead." Pixel laughed. "You're welcome by the way. Goodnight."
"Night."
Kit and Pixel entered their houses. Pixel returned to bed with Stephanie and Kit returned to bed with Robyn. Luckily everyone slept well for the rest of the night and woke up bright and breezy the next morning.
Extraordinarily Robbie got up early that morning. Something he'd not done since feeding Robyn when she was a baby. He was due over at the Mayor's house to make some last minute arrangements for Robyn's birthday. He'd called the Mayor after Robyn had gone to bed and told him that there'd been a breakthrough with her. Delighted with the news the Mayor had invited Robbie over for breakfast so they could make plans.
Bessie was rather caught off guard when Robbie turned up at the house on time. She'd expected him to be late at least. Showing Robbie into the kitchen Bessie went to get a pen and paper so they could right down everything they'd come up with. Kit's birthday was also on the list of things to discuss.
After an hour and a half all of the plans for the two birthdays were laid out. Both birthdays were to be celebrated on the same day as there was only two days between the birthdays anyway. Robbie got to work circulating the plans while Bessie and the Mayor got to putting them in action.
