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Suddenly my phone sounded!  It’s hard to express my excitement.  I must have wandered into an area with service and (of course) someone from the bank team was trying to call me!

I excitedly pulled out my phone, and checked, but no, it was just a calendar reminder.  My brother’s birthday was in a week.  Of course, my calendar alert sounds nothing like my ringtone, but wishful thinking… I started to laugh almost hysterically.

Isodemos, who had jumped away at the sound and appearance of the cell, mastered his fear, and gently guided me along the road back.

When we reached the house again, I gave him a weak smile of thanks.  And he again jumped back in fear.

Despite my decision to act as if everything I saw was real and not worry about how or why, I basically spent the next few days catatonic.  But each morning when I failed to wake up in my hotel room or a hospital, my decision to accept my situation (for now) became more real.

Also by David Schenck:

A New York Lawyer in the Court of Pericles Series

A modern man trapped in ancient Greece.

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