She paused to debate between trying to navigate the road in her high-heel shoes, and risking walking on it barefoot.Suddenly, something rustled the le...ves of a bush near her, and when she spun around to investigate, she lost her footing and fell backwards onto the road, thankfully missing any of the broken bottles. As she tried to get up, something snakelike reached out and wrapped itself around her foot."Aaugh! Get off me!" Cherise kicked at whatever it was with her free foot before another. "Again, Markus and his family interfere. I am going to have a warrant for his arrest drawn and issued to all peacekeepers across the land, when I return to Landkur. This is becoming very annoying," she said."I can't believe I didn't think to put up a stronger spell than just the one I did. Most people of that land don't or can't do magic. While there are a few who can, they are few and far between. I totally ignored the fact that Markus and his daughter had visited my camp."I might as well have. It is a very pretty color scheme, but it feels a little too girly for my taste. I will suck it up though for a year because of the reputation that this company has. Hopefully I can move up the corporate ladder and either move to another building or possibly run a FGI facility when we start expanding globally.A few minutes later and my interviewer Amanda comes in and greets me. She made Sasha look like a trashy whore by comparison. I could not believe how beautiful the women at Femco are. I know. " This is the council Ura," answered her wife Nalani calmly. "We hear you fine. We're standing by..."Flashback to the spring of 1418... Leon gave one last smile to Kiana and lay down on the skateboard. He dimly noticed the sunrise was just a few seconds from touching the mountaintop as he nodded to Nalani behind him that he was going to start down. He began to paddle slowly into the tunnel, and reached to turn on the flashlight mounted on the skateboard. A touch of dawn sunlight seemed burst.