"For you see..." Ena concluded fondly. "They were all my children as well." Yeah." Ryoko mused pondering the image. "Been meaning to ask you about tha...." On the day of his coronation." Ena supplied as the image behind her shifted. This time to a view set within a mammoth, brightly-lit temple. "Azusa took Misaki to be his wife," she continued as Ryoko's found her eyes darting back and forth. There was so much to take in!Thousands of people! Cheering beneath hundreds of banners! Multitudes of. " We can do that. Now, as I was saying, we can also do age regression. Like I said, I'm 56 and I look the way I did when I got out of medical school at 30. You'll see some guys all the way back to their teens. Don't judge someone by their apparent age, you'll be wrong. Although, that may be a good judge of their emotional age."We both chuckled at that. I chose 30 and Diana chose 27, smiling because that's how old we were when we met. We asked if we both climb in, or what, and Diana said she was. First, there is the question of her mental stability." Ripley appeared to in control of herself when we spoke."'That could be misleading or just a temporary state of mind,' Grantthought to himself. "She claims the killing of Agent Chrysanthemumcaused her mental breakdown?" Yes, sir, she did." Ripley could face criminal charges for what she did." I am aware of that, sir," she said, but privately she thought that theman was a pompous fool, since Tom had a strong legal defense availableshould she. His head tilted right. The world went left. Yes. Something was wrong with this picture. The surface had things on it. Things with writing, what looked like boxes.Chris's eyes flicked up. Ah. It wasn't a ceiling. It was a wall.Chris lay in a darkish hospital room. His head, and upper body, were raised up. Not much, but enough to confuse assumptions made over countless previous nights. His eyes closed again.Whatever.What had happened was still a bit confusing, at least in his current state. Some.