Once we were ready, I started the engine and let it warm, and called operations to tell them I was filing a local VFR for one hour. The guy in ops key...d the mike a couple of times as I began a slow taxi to the runway. As I got near the runway, I called for permission to access the active runway and take off. The ops guy repeated my call sign and granted permission, along with a wish for happy flying.We gained speed and took off just like the book said and turned out toward the coast. I wanted. ) Bowing his head, Dag reached out with his other sight, and felt a welcome bidding to enter. He made aloud the proper response, still properly upholding of the name of Svent even as his numb hands lost all feeling altogether.Dag clambered down into the hole, dropping four feet to the floor. While gloomy, it was out of the wind, and a welcome shelter from the hard freeze outside.Finding a cold fire-pit, the ashes looking positively ancient, he took the time to sweep up the old ashes and throw. It seemed at the very least that grief and romantic tensions weren't his sole providence after all!Hell! half the time it felt like he, his family and friends were stuck in some cheap Sho'jo!The melodic tones which lilted gently rose briefly as a quartet of musicians a short distance away plied instruments that were at once curious and wonderful.Primarily drawing his attention was a massive stringed instrument. Apparently played much as an inverted guitar.Braced against the ground, the slender. She had a lot of questions about this concept, and towards the end said her current boyfriend would never let her be in one. I told her it was her loss because women should be able have multiple relationships and sleep with whoever they choose and not be judged harshly for doing so. Though, it's not for everyone. She said they had been together for almost four years and she couldn't imagine him changing. They were not officially engaged though talked about getting engaged and then married after.