We had worked together for the past 10 years and I had been in love with her for the same period, of course I had never told her and never could for w... were both married. From the conversations we had at the coffee machine she was certainly happily married and life was all go for her. She'd be telling me how they were going to their weekend home where she, her husband and k**s would be water skiing and jet skiing all weekend. Grilling, drinking and having fun with the neighboring families in. You're going to come in your pants when you see her." Dammit, Court, I told you that you're all I need. I love you, you little idiot. Just because those other guys have more than one wife..." She's going to fall for you like a ton of bricks; I just know it." Courtney, you are not listening. I don't need... " See you at the usual time, and don't you dare be late." Court..." Bye, Baby. Love you." And she hung up the phone.Courtney found Bridget looking out the picture window at an increasingly. " He glanced at the three dozen or so fellow Mages gathered in a loose circle around the campfire. "Even now I doubt everyone has the same goal, except kicking the Inonni back to where they came from."A nodding of heads again."But back then?" Jothan shook his head. "Forget it. Beyond surviving a genocidal campaign by two insane men, we had no cause. I suspect a good number left the Guild because they thought it some sort of grand lark, a way to get out from under the daily grind of classes and. Some of those are really dangerous ... the safe ones are fresh water only ... some lakes that would qualify as oceans but no salt water." Just fresh water? Life?" Nope ... they're missing at least one of the essential elements that combine to make life. Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorous and Sulphur. Those six are easily combined by natural processes and are the building blocks of life as you know it." Amino acid?" There's twelve or sixteen different Amino Acids. They're mostly.