’ He kissed her again before he leaned back into his own chair. Ellia was silent for a while, then she said, ‘It’s going to be alright, isn’t...it?’ ‘Yes,’ he replied confidently. ‘It is definitely going to be alright.’ ‘And… they’ll… know…’ ‘Yes. They will definitely know who we are.’ It was something that she had only eluded to once, but Micah knew that Ellia secretly worried that not carrying the children in her own womb would somehow diminish their bond. That they wouldn’t understand that. ”“Am I going to have to pay you to find out what it is?”“In a rush, are you? Yes, it’s always people like you using this method. Mana and health potions, as well as all other concoctions used by adventurers, may seem like bottled miracles, but they are a double-edged sword. If overexposed, the body can forget how to repair and restore itself. If a wound is repeatedly inflicted on one spot and healed with potions, eventually the body will lose the ability to mend that spot on its own. Cuts will. “Lucky guess.” He responded.“And he gets the cutest face!” Kelly told him.“Oh?” he says as we get in the car, from habit, I get in the back, but so does Pat. “Do I offend?” Kelly asked him,He just replied, “No, just force of habit I guess..”But as we were laughing about this, Anthony knocked on the passenger side door, “Hey can I get a ride?”“Cash, grass, or ass hun, no one here rides for free...” Kelly said as she unlocks the door.“I pick ass.” He said, grinning wickedly at Kelly.“Ipse est SO. If all the other indications didn't do it, the sadness shown by Susan alone would have told me it wasn't pleasant. Whatever it was, they had decided would wait until we got there. I wasn't about to pull rank and force Garth to tell me about it.We had to slow down and move to the side about halfway down the hill to let a couple of young men about Val's age pass by. They nodded to Garth and exchanged hellos with Ricky and Connie."Amanda and Susan will probably beat us to the meeting," Garth said.