"Except me," Geordie butts in, reminding everyone in the room - and himself - that this could not be real. Because that naked man still has wings and, he had noticed when hugging her back, so did Jilly.

And Jilly Coppercorn certainly did not have wings. For all her talk about fairies and animal people, she was as human as him.

Very carefully, he moves Jilly on his lap just enough to see the other two people in the room. She doesn't seem willing to let go of him yet and well, who's he to argue?

"I'm dreaming. All of you and all of this, because there's no way this could be real. I really shouldn't have had that last beer at the Roses."