It’s the first time she is able to see him as a central figure in Sacred Twenty-Eight society. There are natural divisions forming. Those who are drawn to Tom, and those in the periphery. She can see Molly’s aunt and uncle, Lucretia and Ignatius Prewett. Running toward with a bottle of wine is Alphard Black, who will be struck from the family tree. There are others with them, laughing at Alphard’s antics, but she doesn’t recognize them all. 