.without you,....I know I wouldn’t be….” she faltered. She stopped for a moment, remembering what he meant to her; she wanted to do this right. ...he began again. “You saved me,” she stated simply. “No one’s ever done that for me before except for you. It seems like you’re always saving me,” she said quietly. “I know that I wouldn’t have survived without you. I’ve been ungracious and I’m sorry. You have shown me so much, done so much on my behalf; I want you to know that I notice all the things. . well . . . I didn’t get you anything.” “Just open it, please, Connor,” she whispered, sobbing. He removed the red ribbon and paper gently, unwilling to disturb the careful care of the wrapping. When he lifted the lid off the box he saw the dragon. “Oh, wow! Iz, honey, it’s beautiful. Thank you,” Connor remarked, smiling. He held it flat in his hand to admire it. Isabelle placed her hand under Connor’s to steady and position the small white tiger onto the body of the dragon. The dragon and. “In short, not soon.”“All of them?” she asked.“As the possible outcome is a death sentence, we are erring on the side of caution. Some like Merlin and Elymas it’s inevitable though they have the most stored information. Others, like Edward, who believe Mages should be ruling humanity, but wanted to bring it about non-violently are being scanned and evaluated at length,” Cixi explained.“They should simply be killed out of hand!” Mage Fen retorted.“Now who’s the barbarian,” Morgana murmured, yet. By the time we got more sexually engaged our exams closed in and so we decided to concentrate on studies. We had a wonderful sex on the next day of our final exams. Reena told me she’d be visiting her grandparents in Ratnagiri the next day and then go to Shimla for vacations.I was sad that I won’t see her for two months. We spent the last hours together riding my bike where she clung onto me as we talked. I said I’d try to persuade my parents to visit Shimla as well. Though we knew it was.