"I think you want to distract me anyway," Raleigh says, smirking at her. "I think it's going to be okay, though, as long as I can actively think about it. Now that I know I can do it, I know how to keep it from acting up."

He thinks, anyway. It bears a little further investigation and Raleigh doesn't want to do that inside his house. He's going to have to finish getting dressed and go check the lines and, when he does, he can play around with his fire.

"If you'll let me go get dressed I can get outside and check the lines and try to make sense of the fire. Maybe meet you for breakfast later?"