As soon as Lin rolled up to the apartment complex her cell ring and it didn't take any magical powers to guess who it was. "What?" she answered quite annoyed. "I'm just getting here now...but you knew that didn't you?" "Hold on what?" she said to the caller, Xien her older sister and Courtney's mother. "Back up when?" "All of them?" she said in disbelief. "Yeah, it's better I tell her, Nyomi was...is, one of the only people she was close to." Xien goes on for a bit and Lin feeling embarrassed of how she answered the phone does something she rarely does with her older sister; she listens. "Don't worry about it Xien. I'll make sure she doesn't do anything stupid and stays here. You guys do what you can and if you need help...yes, I love you too." And with that Lin hangs up and tucks her cell phone in the rear of her pants at the small of her back and steps into the complex. As the elevator ascends she keeps going over what her sister was telling her. It was bad enough with more and more people from the magical community just up and disappearing but this...this was unbelievable and from a woman who grew up surrounded by magic that was saying a lot. Finally she arrived at Courtney's door and knocked. It took several seconds but when Courtney answered her face went from worry to relief. "Oh thank God it's only you Aunty Lin." Courtney said with a smile. Lin thought over what Courtney had said and would get back to that later but first, "Courtney." she said as lovinglingly as she could muster "Have you seen the news today?" "No" Courtney answered looking puzzled. "Sit down, I have some bad news." TO BE CONTINUED