”I just stared at her. She was making another play! The difference was, this time I was free from her spell.“I have a pretty good idea what it is ...ou want. You’re wasting your time.”“Why is that? Why won’t you even consider it? You loved me. We were very compatible. You broke up with me because I scared you with talk of commitment. Maybe that was a mistake, but I don’t think you and I being together then was a mistake. We could have been together for nearly eight years now. Would that have been. My teammates were also working along similar lines dealing with other aspects of the proposed apprentice system. We compared notes at daily staff meetings.The big day had arrived for our board presentation. We were to go up the elevator to the top floor where the executive offices and boardroom were located.I was sure we would be issued some sort of clothing so that we would be decent as we made our presentation to the board. I was wrong about that. We were marched essentially naked to our. . call it a ceiling, and it began to give off a soft glow using the power of the Great Power to keep it illuminated.“Won’t it notice the use of power?” I asked.“No, it’s more or less dormant. Even its feeding is more of a reaction to powerful magical sources than anything else. So long as we do not trip a certain threshold, it will not notice us. Problem being that I do not know what the threshold is, so please err on the side of caution,” she replied seriously.“Are you OK; you got pretty upset. Otherwise..."She shrugged and said, "I called our insurance agent. He authorized me to hire professionals to clean up the fire and water damage. They're on the way, as we speak. Danny and Flint booked a block of rooms in a nearby hotel for our residents, and the used bus we just purchased is on the way here to transport them to the hotel. At this point, I don't know if our insurance covers the cost of the hotel rooms." Doesn't matter. If it doesn't, I'll pay for the rooms," David said.Flint.