"Spirits! You mean Tom’s still around?" The possibility hadn’t even occurred to Serrin. The troll had been so hell-bent on self-destruction that Serrin had almost given up on him after the last of his endless binges. It had been so long since anyone had seen or heard of him downtown, that Serrin had simply assumed his friend was dead. In that instant, he realized that he’d deliberately avoided trying to find out about Tom because the thought of his death had been just too painful.