Han wasn't surprised to find Luke seated at Leia's bedside, reading a datapad while she slept. Not at all. He was surprised that Mara wasn't with him, though. Taking a deep breath, he pulled another chair over and sat down. "Hi."

Luke glanced up from the datapad. "Hi yourself, Han."

Han nodded to his sleeping wife. "She wake up again?"

"No."

Then they lapsed into comfortable silence for a few minutes as Luke continued to read the datapad. Finally, Han sighed. "I wasn't going to ask, but... is something going on? With Mara? That she doesn't want to talk about yet?"

Luke nodded slowly. "Yes."

"Thought so. She didn't make you wear something strange again, did she?"

Luke paused in his reading and turned to stare at him. "No, she didn't. In fact, she gave me a floral arrangement."

"For what?" Leia asked suddenly, surprising them both.

Han smiled at her. "You're going to be an aunt again."

Leia blinked in confusion for a moment before a smile spread across her lips. "Oh."

Luke returned the smile, but shook his head. "Act surprised when Mara tells you, all right?"

Leia looked from him, to Han, and back again. "I think we can do that."

"Good."

Elsie had just poured her first cup of coffee when she felt it. Another seer. Close. "You know... it's rude to sneak up on people like that."

Dawn chuckled from behind her. "And here I thought you'd actually drink that in your sleep, Dusty."

Elsie sighed and turned to look at her. "Chris let you in?"

Dawn studied her for a long moment, expression carefully schooled to be blank. "Somehow, I don't think he minded leaving this morning. What did you say to him last night? Or it could just be the fact that Running Moon doesn't pull strings to get me here, sitting in your kitchen for no reason."

Elsie sat down across from her, took a sip. "He popped into my dream by accident, I threatened him with karaoke. Haven't spoken to him yet today. Still might look into finding a bar to embarrass ourselves at. Might be fun."

Dawn studied her some more. "Right. You popped into a meeting Running Moon was having, specifically to talk to her. She knew it was more than what you said, because she knows you. She asked me to come here... why? What happened?"

"I had a bad day. Can we just leave it at that?"

"No."

Elsie set the coffee cup aside, wanting very much to be anywhere else. "I witnessed an accident I could not prevent, Dawn. That's all."

"Uh-huh. That's not the vibe Running Moon got. Her wording was more 'Dawn, she was acting like she was sixteen again. Fix it, please!' And something about a ghost being grounded, whatever that means."

"I was not that bad." She glanced at Dawn, noting the incredulous expression. "What?"

"You were so. Starting with rescuing an unidentified coma patient out of the Hope Memorial Neuro-ICU based on a vision... and a promise to said unidentified coma patient, and ending with you at a wedding reception, being a human Oijua board." Dawn sat back and gazed at her cooly. Two could play at that game. "So it was more than witnessing an accident. If you try to lie to me again, do remember that I know more than thirty really annoying songs by heart, some of them Disney. Spill."

Elsie took a deep breath. It did nothing to settle her nerves. "You're right. It was more than the accident. Neesta was doing information relay to the kids who aren't supposed to know she exists, and got caught by her grandmother. Mara took exception to it, and I had to run interference because she would have said things to the kid that she would have regretted later."

"And?"

"The place I had to run interference in was a hospital, Dawn."

Dawn froze, again evaluating the woman in front of her. That explained some things. "Oh. That wasn't a senario I thought of when we were running you through your paces, was it?"

Elsie laughed a little. "Would you have predicted that I'd be pressed into service because an invisible child wanted to be helpful?"

"Point." Dawn leaned forward. "What kind of a meeting was Running Moon having, anyway? She didn't say."

"The kind where I knew but didn't know one of the participants and found out that Susan needs to think about what she's wearing when going into the field undercover. Orange does not inconspicuos make."

Dawn laughed. "I'll bet it doesn't. Was it anything we should be worried about now?"

"No." She paused, took a sip of her caf... "Maybe. It depends."

Renna frowned as she stared at the list of things to do that her mother had handed her. "This isn't what I want. It's going to be a simple ceremony in your backyard."

Widia smiled. "I know that, but..."

"Nothing fancy, Mother."

Widia sighed, sat back in her chair. "All right. Nothing too fancy... but just fancy enough for you. It's a special event, you know."

"I'm not going to win the no-frills argument, am I?"

"No. There will be frills." Widia smiled again, motioning to where Samir was talking to Luke and Mara in the living room. "I've been planning your wedding since he first turned up while you were ill and slept on the floor beside your bed."

Renna glanced over at her love, touched by her mother's sentiment. "That long, hmm?"

"So, you see... it's special."

"Alena's not pregnant again, is she?"

Widia paused, wondering where that had come from. "No, I don't think she is. Why?"

"The last time there was a special event in this family, she gave birth in the guest room." She glanced at her mother to find her frowning. "What?"

"You slept through it."

"So?"

Elsewhere...

"Wow, it's really colorful in here."

At the sound of the young voice, Diana spun to find a little girl looking around in fascination. She couldn't have been more than five or six years old and was wearing a very plain brown jumpsuit. "Oh. Hello. Can I help you?"

The girl smiled. "Nope! Just visiting!" Then she winced as a hand clamped down on her shoulder. "Nuts."

"You know the rules, Princess," a woman wearing orange scrubs told her. Diana briefly wondered where they'd come from. No one had tried to access the system since Charlie Lippincott had wandered in here to probe it! "Stop trying to bend them and you'll get ungrounded a little sooner."

"But Diana isn't alive!"

"I'm not?" Diana wondered out loud. Sure, she'd lost her body, but...

The woman sighed. "She means figuratively. Not literally."

"Oh."

"And really, little one, she may be a ghost in her own right, but that kind of logic is what got you grounded in the first place."

Diana watched as the little girl and the woman vanished together into nothingness, then shook her head slowly. Of all the things to happen to her since she'd become merged with a computer, that had to be one of the stranger. "I wonder what Alex would say if I told him a little girl and a woman wearing orange scrubs visited me and left with no explanation other than rule bending?" Shrugging, Diana returned to her multitasking existence, humming all the while.