“It struck Ronan that he didn't want Adam to go. For many reasons: beginning with the bad feeling of that scream, proceeding to the way his body would miss Adam's when he curled in his bed, and finishing with the knowledge that something big and unknown lurked out there, unseeable to his dreamer's eyes, seeable to Adam's uncanny ones. It seemed incorrect that Adam visiting would have made his loneliness worse, but he missed him acutely even as he was looking at him.”