"Oh, yes!" Millie cried ecstatically. "Oh, thank you!"
Bink faced the zombie, but did not offer to shake hands. "I think you were another omen for me, Jonathan. When I met you the first time, it signaled death with all its horrors: the death of magic. But through that death I found a kind of rebirth--and so will you."
Bink turned to the door of the cottage, ready to join his family.