I chosethis life for us so we could escape and start anew, biding our timeuntil you could strengthen your skills enough to defeat him in battle.Magic ...ere is concentrated, mastering it here will mean your own powersback home will be exponentially more powerful. I know you aren?t happyat being so young but this is the only way for you to learn withoutbeing noticed. Please give it a chance, I don?t want to lose you the wayI lost your wife and mother.?I tried to be angry, I wanted to be upset. I. I know what Mama Alvarez wanted. She wanted Marianna and I back together as we were then. I didn’t have any idea of what Marianna herself wanted. On top of that, I didn’t know what I wanted either. I was only just getting over the shock of her reappearance. The story of her life in Italy was not a happy one, to be sure. She had married Roberto for the wrong reasons and she paid the price for that in more ways than one. On the other hand, she had two beautiful daughters and that was a big plus.. This couldn’t be she thought. Not in this day and age. All the soldiers and prisoners were drenched in sweat and gasping for breathe; the former from flailing at the prisoners and the latter from fear and pain. Wet spots were everywhere on the rough cement floor—pools of sweat and urine. One pitiful prisoner crawled on his raw hands and knees using several towels to sop up the assortment of liquids while a small female soldier lashed his back with a flexible fiberglass rod.Lily flinched when. ” He said and I got the impression that he was referencing our intimate time together.“And you have a lot of stamina.” I added and he sort of smiled.I tried to stand, but found my legs to be too weak.“You may need to wait a day or so before walking.” He cautioned and gestured to my legs when he saw my confused expression. I looked and saw that from waist down I was equine in every aspect.“So, I'm a centaur.” I said it more as a statement, but he answered anyway.“Yes, the first and only.