The three surviving members of this household are going their separate ways today. One is off to a fabled annual lunch hosted by one of the town's stalwarts. Another will reluctantly head to a meeting of people he chose to call brothers. The third, shuttling between a heavy heart and a fairie spirit (or maybe the fairie spirit carries the heavy heart?), will greet a friend one year shy of saying goodbye to her youth.

And when the air is cooler and the itching dogs are finally weary of their daily wrestling, the three surviving members of this household will find their way home, knowing fully well that they will head off to peaceful sleep with the knowledge of tomorrow getting antsy at the waiting room.