Busy day...

Got to working on a shipping job from the UK to the US and guiding the people doing the packing on what to do to make it better...all of which they chose to ignore. But we're going to crate the boxes so I can live with it.

I did manage to get 60% of the information I needed to better prepare our people at Heathrow on what to do. I'm hoping to get the rest of it, tomorrow.

So no writing done...but here is what I wrote for the outline of chapters one and two of Book Two. 

------

Rebirth

Brendan slowly emerges from a stupor, focused mainly on a window sill, a line of ants scurrying across it, and the remains of a sandwich he realizes he was probably eating. He crushes the ants and throws the plate outside. Memories crash in on him and send him into a painful panic mode. He has a mantra to calm himself and has to use it, over and over. 

He describes the room he's in. He does not recognize where he is or understand why everything is so different from Derry. The back yard and pool. Garage and pool house. He manages to go into the bathroom and recalls being tended to by a couple of men. Looks in a mirror to find himself haggard and his beard patchy. Overwhelmed, he collapses. 

Aunt Mari finds him, takes him back to his bed and lets him know he was brought to her house in Houston. He has been there for five months, much of the time in an akinetic catatonic state. Hit with memories, he realizes Joanna is dead and passes out. 

Rejoining 

Brendan wakes late in the day. Luxuriates lying the bed and forgets where he is, for a moment, then hears voices and smells food and is very hungry. He makes himself get up and go to the bathroom to freshen up. Just brushing his teeth exhausts him, and the taste reminds him of Joanna kissing him at the circle fort. 

Wary, he tries to creep downstairs but his met by his uncle Sean and the family dog, Angus. Brendan realizes Uncle Sean is one who bathed and dressed him. Has a slow Texas way of speaking. He's taken to the living room to meet his cousins, Brandi and Bernadette, both around ten years of age and always arguing. He remembers them complaining about his crying, and recalls a son named Scott who helped Uncle Sean. 

Brendan learns he was brought to Houston in October, and it is now April, 1973. More memories jolt him until Scott returns with a friend, Jeremy, both with a hint of pot's aroma on them. Jeremy leaves and dinner is served. Then the girls try to mess with Brendan by claiming to be each other, so he snaps at them that he's mad as a march hare so be careful. They grow quiet. He's given a small amount of food on his plate due to not having been eating much, told he has a doctor's appointment in 10 days, accepts what has happened and says a prayer for those long dead.