Lance raised his eyebrows at Valerie's rather surprising reply. [color=00aeef][i]That sounds handy, but she'll definitely change her mind if I tell her the clocks are always chiming at odd hours, then suddenly you sink through the bed into the rift of time and catch glimpses of things you wished you knew nothing about before coming back to reality with lapses of nasty heart attacks.[/i][/color] He couldn't help shuddering at the memory of his first experience with an unexpected time-travel, when his grandfather visited him years ago.

[color=00aeef]"Yeah, a quest."[/color] He lowered his head and fixed his eyes on the worn-out sneakers he was wearing today. [color=00aeef]"I...promised Chiron."[/color] From the corner of his eye he noticed that the dream demigoddess went silent. [color=00aeef]"Bad memories from previous quests?"[/color]