California was a hot spot. Names had been revealed, the community was under threat, and there was nothing left for him in California. Not that he wouldn't miss it but Josef was big on survival.

Which was how he found himself in Charlottesville, teaching Economics and pretending to be a professor named Joseph King because he just wasn't ready to change his monogram. Not yet.

Teaching though came with the trouble of actually having to speak to college students, and not snacking on said college students. The latter was nearly the hardest thing. The hardest was Mick being off, doing his own thing, and not having his best friend for eighty years there with him.

It was what had brought him up to the astronomy tower, staring out at the night sky from the balcony that had been built for star watching for the students.