Sheath, Epilogue

  I got home at 1:03.  It was dark, and I had returned the bike.  It was just enough time to get some sleep before work... if I could still go to work.  I shared a mind with a ninja.  I'm pretty sure I'd be a danger to anybody else.  My mind was reeling, and I couldn't stop shaking.  What did this mean?  Why didn't I already know this?  How could I not know that a ninja lived in my head?

  Suddenly the lights flicked on... and I hadn't turned them on.  There... on my couch... was a woman.  A woman with brown hair, and eyes that radiated authority.

  "Yukino Pichelli..."  She said.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"My name is Sara Raft..."

"Sara Raft?!"

"...and I want you to help me."

"Wait... what?"

"I want your help."

"I just killed a man."

"We  can help you with Sheath."  Everything was quiet.

"How'd you know?"

"That's not important.  Will you join?"

"Join what?!  To do what?!"

"Read the email."

"O.K. I really don't want to say this again, but 'what?'"

"On your phone, read the email."  I unlocked my phone, and read.  I could feel my eyes growing wider, bigger.  This... this was bad.

"You-you want me... to help with this?"

"That's the size of it."

"I... I'll do it."

"Good now get some sleep.  You have work at 9:00"

"I'm not even going to ask how you knew that."

"it's better that way."

  Then she left through the door, and I... I fell back onto the couch.  Then I reached over to the table, and grabbed some papers.  Sara had... paid my repo.  I was sold.  Though I still had one question:

"Was Sara Raft... just in my house?"