I hope she will. You ever miss someone so much it feels like an entire color's been stripped right out of your world? Everything looks duller, less real.

[Because it has. There is something about Clara, the woman who threw herself straight into her timestream, risked everything without hesitating. Who was with her through some of her worst days and many of her best.]

Thanks.

[A smile of her own in return.] I think she might've come through here. Maybe you've seen her.

She's small and bossy, but she has this smile that can stop a heart or two cold. Dark hair. [Ask her how she knows.] She's clever and kind and she's beautiful.