" then turned and stepped toward her bath.Aine sat for a moment. The wine was making her warm and happy, and she hadn't had enough yet to be drunk. Sh... heard the bath water running. She smiled to herself "Fuck it! It's my birthday and quite possibly the end of the World..." Aine got up, took all her clothes off, and stepped toward the sound of the running water. As she got to the bathroom, she saw Teagan just stepping into the bathtub. "Mind if I join you?" she asked.Teagan smiled "I was so. Pressures would be increasingly brought to bear on nationalists and political extremists of many kinds to give up fighting and to talk. Make love not war, that slogan made a lot of sense. More and more people were coming to realise that every day, all around the world. ‘I think we will have abolished wars by then,’ declared Ted, following his thought processes. ‘Just recently we’ve had Nigeria, Bangladesh, and of course, for us Americans, Vietnam. We’ve already seen an outpouring of caring and. “You made it trough the qualifiersI Great job! You probably heard this all before, but rules are rules. Gotta brief you anyways. Sorry about that.”She smiled apologetically, coughed once and completely changed her demeanor.“Alright, listen up Dude! The 129th Rasheul great slave tournament features a grand total of 128 combatants. In seven nail biting and chest pounding fights you will have to hack, slash, bite and blow your way to victory in a no holds barred match. And we are not kidding. “Mage Helen reports Zudraj evacuation going to plan; apparently Jeeval’s people anticipated the Malakha and Caddiysh reaction and took several of them out as the wall came down.”“Mage Amehlo reports that Hinnit’s fighting band are engaging the elite Caddiysh units, our Seer team there is now safe and on their way home.”“The other team?” Morgana asked.“Withdrawing under fire, Mage Morgana, but Mage Maria’s people are with them now and the Caddiysh and Malakha are struggling to cope,” Adsila.