It’s exhausting my reserves,” I nodded.“Me too. There are also some life forms in the same direction, though I’m not powerful enough to tell w...o ... or what yet.”“Can’t scan beyond a mile myself, so I’ll take your word for it. But we’ll have to find you something better to wear than these court robes if we’re going to hike a hundred miles,” I chuckled.Giggling, Arwen simply pulled the robes off to leave herself in a child’s version of Mage armour, courtesy of her mother and father no. By the time I finally went to bed I still hadn't made any decision.Friday morning I called my office to see what was happening there in my absence. I was both relieved and disappointed to find out they were functioning quite well without me. I was talking to my boss, Charlie Carson, about when I would be able to come back to work and he told me not to worry about it."Whenever you are ready your job will be waiting for you," Charlie said. "How is Nicky holding up through all this?" She's doing. Jen decided to hang out and chat for a while. I was busy picking up my apartment and having a beer. I was about 21 at the time. I didn’t offer any to her because of her age. We talked about high school and immature boys. We shared that we each had only been with our current partners at the time. As my relationship was looking pretty serious, my girlfriend could be my only. Jennifer expressed how much she was in love, but regardless wanted to know what it was like to be with another man at least. I also had a new friend maybe. I liked her the more I thought about her. Ean liked her older sister for a reason, it was natural that I would like her, I thought. It didn’t really make sense but something about her made me want to really hope that we actually became friends. Twenty minutes can pass by very quickly when lost in thought. I walked into my house and dropped my book bag in the living room. The house was quiet. I was just brave enough after such a good day to face Ean. I had to do.