Raine smiled a little when he laughed, but it was rueful. "I don't blame them," she said, and shook her head. "Even if the general attitude toward us had been more positive, we vanished, with barely a word, and with no indication of when or if we would return."

Of course he wouldn't have thought of visiting the hospital. "I suppose you wouldn't have," Raine said wryly, acknowledging the relative folly of the question. "I ask only because it's one of the facilities the Foreigners primarily ran, at least at first, and I used to work there. I'll have to see what's become of it."