He would give her this one last rose before departing. Swooping down he perched on the edge of the fountain as she arrived. He stretched out his hand ...o give her the rose, prepared to flee and never return. She saw him there and cried out in shock. His deformed visage in the early morning light had startled her. He dropped the rose at her feet and turned to fly away. “Wait…” she said. And he paused, facing away. Slowly…very slowly…she circled to look at him. He cast his eyes down in shame.. Letting his mana flare, he formed a film between himself and the ground. He gambled the moss would not react to the force of his mana directly.It worked, but the vines kept at him. The concentration it took to form the film underneath him prevented him from using his mana as a full-body shield like he did during the fight with Colin.He should have brought Colin along; he hoped the man wouldn’t think they reneged on their deal.The situation had moved too rapidly for him to remember such a. The hike to Equus was simple. We headed south on the Equus road.We were half way down the road and we met Matthew Clemens and his construction crew. They were building the light rail line from Equus to the hospital. They had double tracked the whole line. Matthew planed on making the trains automatic. The trains would also handle freight at non-peak hours. The trip from the hospital to Equus would take ten minutes. Mathew had planned to split the line at the hospital. One line would go to. When I arrived that afternoon I was greeted by a company limousine and bussed to a large company owned house that I was to share with the representatives from France and Germany. I was shown around the house and told that I would be collected in the morning to be taken to the conference. I settled into my room, opened up my lap-top and started to go over what I was going to say and do at the conference. About two hours after I had arrived the other two representatives arrived and I was.