Also, I like kitchens. So I had lots of good reasons. I stuck my head in, and somewhat to my surprise, Prof was in there.As part of the mutual greetin...s Vanessa asked, "How's your day been, Mark?" Very interesting so far."Vanessa said, "Good. You can tell us about it over dinner." Umm, maybe not. It probably wouldn't be suitable dinner conversation in front of The Boys' girls." The two interesting things I'd been thinking of were the Gia and Dakota incidents. Probably best not to mention those,. I was riding this confidence high and I... I changed you." That's why you changed me!? If you really wanted to do that togetherall you needed to do was ask, Elizabeth." The old you would have never accepted it." Elizabeth smiled sadly. "I'mso sorry."I could feel Ellen tensing up again."Ellen." I said. "Baby, whatever changes may have happened, whoever youare now... whoever you were... listen, you're still you. A littledifferent, maybe, but deep down, where it counts, you're still you. AndI will. You have your instructions, I understand." I do, madam. I expect to be away for some days, so please make sure His Excellency does not lack for attention in my absence."She grunted her acceptance of that responsibility, and handed over the bag to him. He took the girl round to the passenger side, made sure she was seated and strapped in, then placed her bag in the rear seat, along with his supplies.He instructed her, "Girl, you do what I tell you, and nothing else. Understand?"She mumbled,. And there were more questions that words could not describe, only feelings.All of these dawned on Zax couple of months ago, when he felt close to finding the fifth spark of light and realized how long it might take him to adapt to the to the fifth bottleneck.All of these reflected at him whenever he saw his friends and family that had different paths than his, much, much shorter ones, yet congested with lifetime of numerous deeds, events and accomplishments.All of these tore Zax inwardly as.