"Don't jinx it." She teased. "Aye, Simon..." Sometimes she had to say the name to herself. At home, they occasionally talked about Tom. But nobody ever dared bring up Simon. They had all been affected by his life and death. Perhaps even more than by Tom's considering the trouble in the time leading up to his arrest and the almost incomprehensible way in which he had met his end, but sometimes it seemed that he had simply never been there in the first place.