"You should get your affairs in order as soon as possible. With treatment, you might have two or three months." Dr. Richards solemnly replied. "I'll h...ve my nurse give you the phone numbers for Hospice and the clinic. I still want to get a biopsy just to be sure, but the chances of it not being cancer are remote."The next morning John called to make an appointment. "I'm a little nervous" he told the receptionist, "I've never done this kind of thing before." She told him "It'll be fine hun, just. ” I replied, perhaps blushing a bit, “I run three days a week and do yoga the other three days.”“Well,” He said, “I also Run, do cardio 3 days and I lift the other 3.”“Well” I said, “Whatever you’re doing, really works.”“Glad that you approve” He said.“Oh”, I added, “I do way more than approve” “We should workout together sometime.” He suggested.“I’d like that” I repliedHe then said something funny, I can’t remember what, but as we both laughed, He put His huge hand on the top of my leg, just. ......ever again." Then thinking to himself how he could wrest that Road Runner away from me. "Better check on it, son." I parted the curtains. Relieved to find it present and accounted for. Then checked again to make sure I wasn't just imagining it being out there."Call her!" No. I'm not calling this close to the end. It's the home stretch. I'm clean. I ain't called and I ain't whacked it. And that Road Runner is still out there."Fuck me, I checked it one more time."I have nobody to talk to.. The marble floor is perhaps 3 feet below you. Your eyes glance around the hall: a hugely high-roofed hall, forming into a dome far above. The room's walls are all made of pure white marble: the only apparent exit is a huge set of double doors opposite you.And between you and the door, She stands - Pharysia, Sorceress of Vik'Aasi, the Ancient Order of Darkness. Terrifying and beautiful she is, though her form seems hard to ascertain: one moment she is tall and slim with raven-black hair, the.