Yeah, it's funny, it's really weird artwork, the way they draw that guy."We established an immediate rapport. I found it odd that a kid who performed ...ith such alacrity and precision could have such a sleepy, lazy manner of speaking. There was much about Stepper that I found intriguing: he had a flair for dance and a sense for music that has never been matched by any kid I knew before or since. He had practical and apparently hard-earned "street smarts" that I envied. At the same time there was. We had arranged for a nice goodbye get together, but things didn't turn out the way we planned.My parents were divorced and my mom lived in a town, a few hours away. It was the weekend where I had to see her. We weren't close at all, years before I had found out she had cheated on my Dad with her now boyfriend, Dave. You see, I lived in a small town, one of those towns where people seemed to know everyone and rumors of her acts had made their way through mouths and to my embarrassment earlier. We arrived in town at the last hours of the evening, almost night, and we had to wait until morning to see the gynecologist. The accommodation would be an awkward moment, since in the house we did not share the bedroom anymore, so I decided move to a different boarding house and meet her at the clinic first time in the morning. She didn't oppose the arrangement.That night was a sleepless one and a journey of introspection of my life. With its lights and shadows, with which I did and what I. So... Jervale had used the power of the crystal to transform some of the challengers into loyal vassals for the princess with their own reality-bending curses, at the will of the Crystal.Jervale hated them all. By this point, he hated nearly everyone he knew. Familiarity, it turned out, bred contempt, and he truly felt everyone else in this tower was an inept moron. As such, every day, he prayed for the day he would receive a challenger and bring about a transformation that would reignite his.