"You'd be surprised how quick you start to get used to things. And it's fine." Nadine takes the drink, she isn't that picky. But after downing it she does call up her own, a rum and coke she can sip as they go.

"I find myself thinking about once a week, how weird my normal is now." Especially where her normal had always been pretty weird. The day to day, though, had been unimpressively mundane.

"I was never exactly what you'd call an ordinary girl, but...I spent most of my adult life in a little town on the coast of New Hampshire, Barnstead. I had a little house with a decent car and a normal job and I'd watch shitty reality TV at night while working on lesson plans and eating whatever Stouffer's crap I'd pulled out of the freezer...and that was normal. Now magic and Jules Verne medical school and fighting desert monsters and shapeshifting...that's my normal. But I'm used to it."