The summer heat gripped Esh-Esh, but the cool breeze off the lake helped to mitigate the heat of the sun's rays. My eyes were supposed to be moving th...ough the assembled shops, but my gaze kept shooting to the ivory pillar of the Collegiate Tower that dominated the city. Its golden beacon was second only in brilliance to the sun setting over the lake.I missed the Tower. I had dreamed of spending my days their in research as a Master Mage, discovering new ways to utilize the five elements.. " Hmm," Dr Bloom said. "Well, Jack, we're going to haveto talk a bit, to make up a 'blueprint,' so to speak,of the body you want to have after the procedure isfinished. Once that's done, I don't think it'll takemore than a week or two for the necessary gene surgery."Needless to say, we got the paperwork out of the waythat night. It wasn't really anything too extensive,since there was little doubt that the procedure wassafe, but they still needed to make sure they werecovered legally in case the. I took a couple of minutes to hide our beers and weed lying all over the car and then got off. Tailing us was another couple probably from Bangalore as their car was registered there. They seemed to be lost and were looking for directions. Luckily for them, they were heading to River tern too and I asked them to follow us.Post reaching the property and while checking in, we got introduced to each other. A usual IT couple but there was something in the lady that got me thinking. While the hubby. "I'm not sure how Madi was able to keep herself together, but I started to feel a bit worried."I'm quite sure that the building that was used on those guys was torn down a bit more than a week later. We couldn't find any trace of the car, even though we knew in which direction it was heading. We do have some bad footage of two persons, probably a man and a woman, but that was something we already suspected. So, we seemed to have a dead end. Then a colleague of mine, quite accidentally, had a.