He was about to ask about her weekend plans, to figure out if she was taken, when Emma shot out the doors as soon as they opened. She made a beeline f...r the exit. She didn’t know why Sylar was staring at her like that. She could feel the weight of his gaze even without looking at him. And in her head, all she could picture was him naked. She couldn’t even look at his feet because that meant envisioning his legs, and then his penis… all nine inches of engorged flesh. No. Stop. Shaking the image. “Last, but not least, none of this would have happened without Mary,” Nick said smiling as the room began to applaud. “We owe you so much for what you’ve done for us.” Emma went to Mary with a gift, along with a huge hug, as did many of the staff members. When Mary looked up to thank Nick, he was nowhere to be found. Commotion from the children in the room caused everyone to turn to the open barn doors. The sound of bells, horse’s hoofs and a hearty “Ho, Ho, Ho!” announced the arrival of the. “Ready. Device has run through start-up and has self-calibrated. Device now beginning preliminary tests on subject,” Artello intoned as he watched his instruments. “Frequency is changed to Loegrian norm. All stable and holding.”“Well done and thank you,” a relieved Rowenna said to Artello and his people.“Always a pleasure, Mage Rowenna,” Artello replied. “May we remain to observe the procedure you intend to carry out?”“Of course, Artello. Make yourselves comfortable,” Rowenna replied as. I knew it had to be appealing and couldn't be some offshoot from something no one had heard of before. I usually flip a coin to decide things like this, but I had more than 2 options in mind. I wrote down several options which also included some gender-bent options as well. It was a new thing people were doing and getting extra credit for pulling it off.Now for the moment of truth. I put all the options in the bucket and shuffled them around the best I could. It was at this point my mom walked.