She came back to the booth, kissed me and just smiled. Ali smiled, said you have a lovely wife and excused himself to the restroom. I asked my wife if...that was fun, she took a sip of her drink, ordered another and she said “very fun”. I smiled and said, “I’m glad honey, it’s time you let loose and enjoy yourself”. I did ask if she wanted to leave and she said she wanted to stay. Ali returned back from the restroom, took his seat in the booth and sat just a bit closer to Melissa. We chatted for. We live in a smaller community, but one worth living in. A few big box n’ ticket stores tried building in our town, but we had petitioned and fought for them to be removed. We won. In fact, they still moved in, but just outside of the border. However, after about two years, they ended up closing those stores down anyway, as most of us in our town had rallied against shopping and working there. That, too, is another story for another time. So, hopefully you like what I am writing and the. And then it happened. I stole his powers.’ Solar Man’s eyes widened, and for the first time since this started, he really attempted to struggle. He tried to move his body, but her telepathic commands kept him locked in place. He tried to call upon his powers, to generate the flames from whence he derived his ‘code name.’ But he couldn’t. Somehow, she had turned off his fire powers with her psychic abilities as well. He struggled to block out what she was doing, to try and recall his senses and. Doubtstarted to creep into my mind. If these people gathered their power fromthe rain, then we might be in trouble, as it had apparently been rainingon and off for three months in the Province. However, a short while after the clearing, I decided that we had nochoice. We had arrived at the Rainfall Encampment. However, encampment didn't begin to describe the threat that now facedus.The towers of the old fort were now fully surrounded by the trees of theforest. It was a standard Imperial Fort,.