"I am indeed," he replied, smiling."I am married you know." That hasn't slowed you down in the past," he said."And how would you know that?" Oh, a bea...tiful woman, looking for a little excitement. The word gets around." Hmmm, but you are wrong about one thing." Oh, what's that?" Sweetie, I'm not looking for a little excitement. I'm looking for a LOT of excitement." That can be arranged." Then suppose you call me and we'll see if we can't excite each other." It will be my pleasure."They had met. Jenny gaped in amazement.“That was the low setting. A higher setting could let me cut through metal. With all the clients I’ll sell it off to, I estimate I’ll be able to make thirty million dollars and still keep the prototype.”“Wait, THIRTY MILLION?!” Jenny exclaimed.“Technology like this is worth a lot, depending on who you sell it to. Yeah, I already have well over a hundred million dollars in my bank account now from all of my inventions. In fact, I even offered to buy my parents a mansion. " Teacher answered with a non-committal air.We stood again at the border of the Garden and I thought us done, but the Teacher remained, looking at me."What?" I asked."What do you call this future self you think you will become?" Teacher asked. "If not Guardian, then what?" A walker," I answered. "My future self will be a Walker between the Worlds." Walker." Teacher said with a mysterious smile. "It seems you have heard that phrase somewhere before."And with that the Teacher was gone.The winter. .. if he could no longer have Cedany, than nothing else was worth even a fraction of her loss to him. Even the apparent anger of the Duke meant little to him.Even now trapped forever within layers of steel and silver, as a sword now worn constantly at Rowan's side, the Lady and her father the Duke, had agreed with the counsel of his village headsman and his priest, that Rowan now was evermore tainted by his seizure and use of the Daemon-Horn ... and the fact that it was now a Daemon-Horn blade.