"I think I would have liked to meet him," Dan says. "Maybe he just saw what a force you are, to be reckoned with at times." He'd like to just look at Marcus for a while, but he knows by now that the shine will not work as a radar to keep him from tripping and making an idiot of himself. "Get his thoughts on you shacking up with the psychic drifter you picked up at a train station."

And he'd have liked to introduce Marcus not only to Abra and the family he'd made then, but he really wishes that Marcus could have met his mother.

"Also, for what it's worth, you're pretty hot when you're being unstable."