You have such a bond and I just sometimes wish I could find the same thing; you know someone just for me."Her words had come tumbling out, like once s...e started, she couldn't stop. She buried her face into her hands, crying harder now. Greg had heard what was happening and he went around the bed. He sat on Traci's other side, putting his arm around her. He couldn't say much, but he felt a lump in his chest that meant he thought he was losing someone he cared very much for.While Greg continued. "Sure." Tara would love to go." Good idea," Sophia grinned. "She would. We're going back stage and everything. OK with you, Snugglebear?" Absolutely," Warren agreed."I'll go tell her." Sophia ran up to Tara's bedroom upstairs. A few minutes later, the folks downstairs heard a delighted scream.A week later, they were at the Fleet Center in Boston, trying to get back stage."Look, we have backstage passes, right here," Warren said."That's not good enough," the guard at the door said. "You have to. “The Yotenen, the Dawn, and now the representative of the Porsthir. With the Xandrao and the Golden down there, these cursed Union cretins gaining a substantial foothold in that region of the galaxy.“He complained to no one in particular. I wonder how they did that, decades after decades they paid no attention to this region, while we prepared to expand this way. We lost those we wanted to assimilate for our needs and with the Union now active down there it will not be as easy to gain. He could see a small tunnel that had been created in the 3m thick wall of the cavern that the flicker must have used in the past to enter the cave. It was big enough to let a spider in, so he carefully moved the rocks to close it up.He inspected the massive tree. While Nature wasn’t his strongest trait, he could still work with it to the extent he needed to. He determined that the centre of the tree was deadwood. The tree drew its nutrients from its outer rings.Touching the tree, he had.