"Why can't I remember the trip here? Never mind deciding to come here?"

"I don't know?" Her head snaps up. "I didn't drug you or anything, if that's what you're thinking!"

"No!" I have a sudden need to make sure she knows I don't think that. "I don'…

Credit where credit is due,

Books take you places.

They do.

Outer space, Wonderland, too,

Stories bring you out,

They do.

But I,

I thought I helped you.

Me, you appreciate, true?

Yet you,

Claim books helped, not I.

Credit where credit is due.

:/ :(…

As I turned right at the old adobe building, Carmen's voice piped up from the back seat. "Grandma, where are you going?"

I was surprised that she had noticed. Usually her head was bowed over her phone, oblivious to the world around her.

"The Iron Skille…