The phone rings a few times before Kade answers. The states are six hours behind us, so midnight here is only six o’clock over there.

“Seymore, nice to hear from you again. Raven and I were just talking about you,” Kade says after the initial hellos. “How have you been?”

“Do you have time? I’ve got a lot going on,” I reply, heading out to Doc’s garden to speak to him in private.

It takes me a good hour to fill him in on everything going on. ...