He opened the box and inside he found a silver necklace with a pink crystal pendant. The pendant was vaguely shaped like a match or a cock, depending ...n your mindset. David took the necklace out of the box and gave it to Tillie, bending down so she could put it on.She took it and gingerly placed it around his neck, locking it. The crystal felt warm to his skin when it touched him.David hugged Tillie, lifting her feet in the air and swinging her around. “Thank you dear, it’s wonderful, now we. I was ‘enhanced.’ After enhancement I was suddenly VERY popular”“But ... but ... you look natural.” She put out a hand and ‘felt.’ Having spent the last three years ‘batting for the other team,’ her hand felt wonderful. I moaned. “Tyche ... isn’t that your recording team?” Tyche didn’t need to see this. Wherever ‘this’ led.Tyche was suddenly all business. She ran out to her pipe frame and started her preflight checklist. To complaints that it was taking too long she said, “It’s an airplane .... Perhaps she truly was right that she was some warrior of another person. Fenghuang, Nezha ... I must thank you for your efforts one day for finding someone to provide me company again.”He shifted on his chair as he put his pipe down on the table. He read the pages quietly to himself while he was thinking.“Anhangá is still alive protecting the forests in South America. I hope he comes around and joins the Coalition of Deities. Iara is still trying to convince him, but he is in a firm belief that. Like I should talk, okay?"Digital's the only kind of communications you have now, Ryan," Ed said.Ryan gave him a look. "Ed, this is Nikki Granger. She's an engineer. That's her husband, Dan Granger. He's the lead contract engineer. Nikki's going to work with you on what they need."The guy looked at me. Looked at Dan. Looked back at me. "Engineer? You look kinda young..."Okay. I've had this conversation so many times I should have it recorded. "I turned eighteen a week ago. I have a master's in.