She looked at me, softly, this didn’t feel like Sarah, my childhood friend, rather someone else looking at me, and she looked beautiful. “Did you ...earn anything else?” She asked.I was confused, “What do you mean?”She started to turn red now, “Like, sex… you know?”“Y-Yeah… I guess so… I think.”Sarah then reached for my hand, stood up, and took me towards to my bed, and sat me down next to her. Once again she moved towards me for another kiss, but this one felt different, it wasn’t soft, rather. I found everything about it had changed when I started to meditate. Now, it is a roiling ball of molten gold, and the cords are now patches of color that flicker across the surface.”Nadine looked puzzled, “I’ve never heard of mana cores changing that way. I have heard of heart cords among full beast-men before. I’m surprised you developed not one but another with a human.” We sat in comfortable silence while digesting the new information.We were brought out of our heads when the door opened.. And despite mysuspicion that Cavendish still disapproved of me, I had no doubt that hehad passed my request on to Lucas.As I stared out the window, I looked as deeply into my heart as I could.After all, Eliza had wanted Calvin and had signaled her desire. But as Ithought back through her memory, I saw that there had been opportunities? in her journals, she had always cited interference by servants, but Ihad already learned that servants could be dealt with.Eliza, raised in this world, had to. He decided that he would spend histime making money at blackjack, poker, and eventually venturing into therarified world of Chemin de Fer. You needed a stake of at least athousand dollars to enter that area, and many of the gamblers there hadbrought much more than that. There were arab sheiks, cartel members,tech billionaires and other members of the fabulously wealthy. Brainyplanned on getting in there and doing his best to clean out the housebefore he was finished. All he had to do was.