Volume II - Episode 70 Where: Melbourne, Australia When: 1 month and 2 days after E-Day, 4:14 pm Jessica closed the bedroom door and joined Ken and Victor in the kitchen. Victor was staring thoughtfully into the backyard while Ken washed the dishes. The mood was sombre. "She's sleeping?" Ken asked. Jessica nodded. "Your tea did the trick. It's a wonder drug, that stuff." "We have to train her," Victor said. "We have to train her quickly." "I know," Jessica said. "Ken was just telling me how rare pyromancy is. It's rare. Like really rare." "I know." "And for her to have done what she did...with no training..." "I know." "...with no preparation..." "I know." "...with no tools or materials..." "I know, Vic. Jesus! But give her a little space first, okay? She was just...assaulted." The r-word. She couldn't bring herself to say it out loud. Ken looked up from the kitchen sink. "She wasn't comfortable with me touching her. Did you notice?" "Yeah," Jessica said. "Her body went completely rigid. She was really nervous. She was making me nervous just watching her. I've never seen her like that before." Ken nodded. "She was trembling. I'm not sure if you could see it, but every time I touched her, she flinched. And there was this..." He lifted his hands out of the sink. Jessica suddenly realised he hadn't been washing dishes after all. The sink was full of ice. His fingertips were scorched black. "Jesus, Ken! Are you..." And then all three of them fell silent, for they heard a sound nobody expected to hear in the post-E-Day world. The sound of the front door bell.