”Well, that was short and sweet, I told myself. But of course there was no need for inconsequential chit-chat. These are machine minds, not human be...ngs.It was near lunch time when Dawes summoned me. I attended his presence, saying “You wished to see me, sir?”“Yes, Jeeves. Jones informs me that you got him to examine the listening devices from the car, and it seems he pointed out to you a number stamped on the interior of the casing of the transmitter. Is this an accurate summation?”“Indeed it. We both had coffee and leaned back in our chairs, sipping the coffee and looking at each other, satisfied.As I look back to that night I realize that Alice was accomplishing something that needed to be done. We had forecast each other's future. We said it was okay to move on. We let go.But at that point in our dinner date all I could think of was getting Alice back to the cottage and showing her how much she meant to me. Seymour presented the check, saying that my aunt had called again to say. Mom (Viji): Renu, are you mad?In a calm, soothing voice, Pallavi said.Pallavi: Dear ladies, I love the kind of relationship you maintain. The awesome adventures you have experienced. I heard a lot about you, almost everything. What I experienced during today’s incestuous fucking session is unexplainable.Navi: Pallavi, what do you mean by you know everything?Pallavi: To the point that it was Akash who impregnated you.Navi was dumbstruckMom (Viji): Renu, what have you done? It should have been a. Esfalan felt the trident awaken, and felt the coursing of mana through ancient tiny paths in the crystalline object. And then he understood - it was, in a sense, a theravara, but meant to store mana or filter a flow of it into some pre-designed casting. Quickly, he determined there were battle-useful spells in it, to blast, to shield, to melt. And one that had some very strange effect that seemed to twist space and time at it's focus - adding the mana to that pathway, Esfalan felt something.