“Where do I begin?” Alex started.

“The beginning’s a good point,” Will joked.

“Screw that!” Robert jumped in. “Hop to the end. I want to see if the butler did it!” We all glared at him. For once, he took the hint!

“Well, I could go into detail about what I’ve been doing.” He looked at Adrovan, who shook his head slightly. “But we’re obviously short on time. Okay, Reader’s Digest version.

“A little over five months ago, I had a… Dream isn’t the right word. It was too intense. Vision is more like it. Adrovan visited me, and told me something major was coming down. Something was out of balance, and he needed us to set it right.

“Adrovan said he needed all five of us, but that you four weren’t ready, yet.” Alex cut Jaime’s question off. “Don’t ask me. He wouldn’t explain it to me, either.”

“He brought me here, and put my unique skills to work.”

”’Unique skills’?” I asked.

“I don’t just play a thief, Dave,” he told us. “In our world, I’m a cat burglar for hire.”

Okay, that I did not see coming.