I shuffled past the dancing green fire in the middle of the bar toward the corner booth, the heat bringing feeling back in my body in needling throbs. I sat facing the door, noting there were fewer people in here than the other night. Low conversations drifted from nearby tables around the crackling fire. A couple sat nearby, their clasped hands on the table near a pair of ferry tickets, their locked gazes charging the air with a sizzling energy.

Something panged in my gut ...