He just nods and looks sad."I believe we should talk," he says in that same calm tone in which he has answered my earlier questions. "I am called Melv...lle, I am the leader here." Oh." comes my genius reply. "I think I need to sit down now." I say as my knees unlocked and I slide bonelessly to the floor, Saber tries to catch me, but it is the nice young man from earlier who ends up with me in a puddle on the floor."Do you need medical attention?" he asks me again.I would have laughed at him but. It wasrectangular with five stories and towers and spires protrudinghaphazardly from the roof. The college was surrounded by dense woods,almost cutting it off from the outside world.The minimum curriculum offered was a three year bachelor's degree andmost stayed the additional two years for their masters. Tuition costten thousand pounds per annum with an additional ten thousand poundboarding fee. Charles was expected to perform at the highest level andmake the most of the money his parents were. "I didn't sleep much that night.? I was torn between fear of somethingthat had nearly killed me once, and the desire to look that thing in theface and tell it that I hadn't given up and wouldn't quit.?In the end, I decided the second case was better.? I wasn't all thatthrilled about becoming a female to do it, but deep down I knew that I'dnever be at peace with myself, or anyone else, if I didn't at least tryto get back out there.Oddly the idea that I would have to do that as a woman didn't. ” “I thought about that a lot myself, before and after I found Gwen,” he gets that far and my face must show my displeasure at her name,” I know you don’t like the fact that I went after her and not you but there isn’t anything I can do about it now.” “Then why the hell are you still here,” I almost hiss at him. “Because your sister,” again I almost want to spit bile at the mention of her,” I know you don’t like that she was first in a lot of things.” “Everything, she’s been first in everything.