She fell into my arms, hugging me tightly as though she may never let go, crying tears of joy, tears of mourning the years she spent in sorrow, and kn...wing that a new era was in the making. With Emily still holding on to me, I whispered ‘And now, I have one more trial, one more moment to recreate for my Innocence Game.’ Then I pulled a remote out of my pocket, and hit play. Bryan Adams ‘Heaven’ started playing and we danced. It was similar to the first time but it was so much more different. He satthere and stared at me saying nothing. So I continued. "Rich, you are such a wonderful man. I would do anything toplease you. I just wanted to have a night out with you. Oh, I'msure you just hate me." I continued as tears started runningdown my face. Rich didn't say anything. He just took me by the shouldersand slowly pulled me to him. He kissed me gently and held metight. "I knew you were an exotic woman when we first met, andI still want to be with you." He whispered. I. "Oh, and you are quite pretty. I had pictured you being pretty, and you are." Thank you for the compliment, Michael," she said, "and, yes, it would be painful for me too for us to never chat again. Herb just has to understand that there is nothing bad about what we've been doing. He just has to."Mike, I do not want to end our little chat thing. It works for me, helps me; you help me. There is nothing bad in what we do," she said."Gil, I will follow your lead in this. Maybe we should meet for. I placed the Helm on my head, not wanting my hands to be encumbered, and unsheathed my axe.The door opened easily for me, revealing a brightly-lit room. Several people stood near the back wall talking, perhaps commenting on the two young mages casually tossing fireball spells at each other in the center of the room. They quickly healed themselves after a lucky hit, but neither seemed to want to get to close to the other.They both noticed me immediately."Look at this!" The tall one in red dyed.