At the mention of a 'nexus' Melody's eyes widened and she stared at Jazz. "A nexus? Searchlight? Is that the one you've told me about, but never told me the name?" the young witch asked, her mouth falling open a little as the older witch's head nodded. "You mean all those things that happened back then, that you have taught me, they happened just down the road in Searchlight? I thought it must have been, I don't know, near the Great Lakes, or something!" she exclaimed more than a little shocked and surprised.

When she had started her apprenticeship Jazz used to have her read old articles, news stories about events that had the names of the place and people blacked out. Jazz had told her that was to stop her being distracted by things that didn't matter, and to just concentrate on the descriptions. "These are all signs of events that you must be on the lookout for," she'd heard every time she'd questioned the old woman. "Doesn't matter where they happened, just that they are signs."

And now the signs were starting to pop up again. Except this one wasn't amongst the ones she'd learnt about back then.

"So this, is it a sign? Or is it something different?"