This was just returning the favor I had done him. After graduation he had gotten a job tending bar at a place in Towson and was also working at a repa...r shop. He had moved into a small apartment in town. A bunch of us helped him move, four fellow bikers, and me, the preppy college kid. Fuck it, we moved him, finished off a couple cases of beer, and fucked around and arm wrestled. I won a few and lost a few.After we moved my stuff, we went back to the apartment and drank all my beer, finished. Then you see it come into view you were sure you had already looked that direction five times but there it is. You approach it somewhat cautiously seeing as it might have something severely wrong. However, something still draws you to reach out and touch it when you got close enough.The moment your hand grazed the fur on its back it seemed to transform into something out of this world. Something you would normally not dare to touch. Then just as quickly as it appeared it vanished. You hadn’t. The aches and pains in his muscles reminded him that he hadn’t been to the gym in roughly a month, since he sarted hanging out with Zeke all the time. It felt good to be active again. When he got home the message light was blinking on his answering machine, and he pressed the play button as he walked past, emptying the gym bag on his bed so he could put stuff away. The robotic voice told him he had one new message. ‘Hey Adam, it’s Dr Nakato. I made your appointment at the hospital with Dr.. ” Cassia said, still in a state of shock.Suddenly, the halfling vanished into a strange mist with a pop. Cassia was about to panic like she had lost her mind, but then heard the halfling’s high-pitched and energetic voice behind her.“Wow! This place is huge!” Cassia whirled around to see Lina spinning in place in the center of the foyer. There was another pop and the short woman was now near one of the walls on her tiptoes running a finger on a vase perched on one of the pedestals. “Mighty.