"Janna shook her head. "That can't be right, Tarras. Not to that extreme." Why not?" I know a little bit about what can and can't be accomplished in m...gic. What you're talking about would take a great deal of energy. Q'yros is a powerful Mage, but does he have the power to do that and all the other things he has done for the Emperor?"Tarras paused a moment. Janna had begun chafing her hands along her arms again. He glanced at one of the cafe walls. There were indentations at regular intervals. Charles was very happy to see Gary as he didn't know anyone locally. Hemanaged to keep enough money after the divorce (which was friendly, his wifedecided after 40 years she preferred women) to live comfortably. He hadplanned to try his hand at writing, maybe self-publish a novel or two, andlook into getting a boat.The very next night Gary came to Charles' place for dinner. His staff haddone a good job on the house and it was nicely modernized, much too big forjust Charles but property wasn't. Clarice wished to be the initiator. The seduction took place at the lake cabin one weekend that June. Clarice had joined us for the weekend, and on Saturday Alice took the boys to the fair in a neighboring county. "Don't wait up for us," she warned. "The boys want to stay for the concert and fireworks this evening, and we will be late." Clarice said that she was not interested in going and would stay at the cabin with me to catch up on some reading. Well, Clarice's plan worked perfectly. She. . and probably wrote it too. It has his fingerprints all over it.”“So, we sent in our own tactical assault team in response and generated the natural gas explosion to blow the place. But how did you manage the special effects? That earthquake timed exactly to the start of the explosion, blowing up parts of the building to low earth orbit less than five minutes after the quake. Now that’s a neat trick!”“Toy of Doc’s,” he laughed, walking over one of the bookshelves in his office to quickly.