) , and as he persevered , over the weeks that followed the sensations increased , and my dark blue edge remained a little longer , until finally , well into his third week he touched my head and found the connection from his last visit still there , and my body gave an almost imperceptible shudder , and relaxed ever so slightly , and if freyja had not been watching me like a hawk ( which she did almost every time paco appeared ) it would have gone unnoticed by everyone but paco ( and who would have ever believed that charlatan ) , and inside my black void the blue edge ever so slightly eased the black to one side , allowing a scrabble tile with the letter q on it to slide in the gap .