"Jason's face crumpled up in a very troubled look. That round of testing'shad already been very hard on him. Repeated injections, blood tests,Stress T...sts EKG and a CAT Scan. He wasn't sure how much more he couldtake. "I don't know how much more I can take. I am already sore from allthe tests they have run."I know, " Brian said. "They said it will just be a few more tests andthose will be mostly noninvasive. Mostly Exrays but they need some moreblood to figure out where the estrogen is coming. It was already really wet and the goop went down my wrist and splattered onto my blue shirt. Everyone around us was also sticking their fingers into each others’ holes. Kristen was crying in her chair. I felt really bad for her because she’s the head of Human Resources at this branch and she wasn’t supposed to let stuff like this happen. But it was already happening. The Business Meeting Fingerblast Orgy was in session and there was nothing she could do about it.Something about me is that I. 'Oh well, ' Alan thought, as he turned toward the place where he felt the last bad Mage. 'Hmmm, ' Alan thought, 'this one isn't going to be a pushover, feels like he's been here for quite a while.'"This last one is going to be a fight Hopix," Alan told her."I thought all of them were a fight for you," Hopix replied."In a small way, they were, but this one has an amount of power I haven't felt before, hell I haven't really felt them compared to this. I know that if I am not ready when I go into. You are hanging out with a bear. You're swimming with a shark. He will eat you, do you understand? They are unpredictable, violent, and couldn't care less about you or any other civilian. They care about each other, their patch, their bike, money, and that’s it. They are dangerous. You are an adult now, and you make your own decisions as such. But every word I just said is true, and you know this. I love you very much, goodnight.” He had to leave the room because he couldn’t let his.