Adia cringes in sympathy, both for Reynard being summoned against his will, and the poor clueless spirit-enthusiasts who paid the price for it. "Good thing I can text you if I need to get ahold of you. Then you can reply at your leisure."

His understanding takes the sting out of her failed attempt to contact Caspar. She even smiles wryly at his final comment. "The first in the whole multiverse? I doubt it..." Flaking off a bit of ganache with her fork, she spends a long moment preparing another bite of cake. "When I told Julia that a Five released me from the detention center, she was very surprised. It's not in their nature -- or programming, whatever -- to do that. She didn't know why he'd make an exception for me."