‘Thomas told me this morning he’d met her last night and she was such a bore, wanting to talk and appeared to have her legs bolted together. So I ...hought she must be okay and then saw her on the street, recognizing her by her photo at the top of her column, so I chatted her up and we um went for coffee.’ ‘Oh how sweet,’ cooed their mom. ‘When are you bringing her home to us?’ ‘God mom, I only met her today.’ ‘When are you dating her?’ ‘I don’t know mom. Why this interrogation?’ ‘Because I’m. “The Gods will raise a glass to you today Gallius,” she pronounces, "In recognition of your great deeds. It must raise your heart to the heavens to see so many of your enemies slain before your feet.” “I have no enemies in the arena, we are all brothers,” Gallius grits his teeth so to hide the shake of emotion he holds behind them. “To slay ones brother does not raise your heart to the gods but banishes it into darkness. An honourable death is all I have to offer my brothers as love. I intend. "That tiny drop is nothing and it's in fact quite easy to swim around this outcrop." She held her drenched beach bag up. "But as you can see, it's not very practical to swim round it." She grabbed my hand. "Come, let's join the others."I shook the gloomy feeling off and enjoyed being dragged by this young lady towards the others. They had put their towels down behind a small rock that more or less hid us from the few other people on this stretch of beach. Mostly very young people and all. I would depend on my claws and speed. Once outside, Grace received a surprise.“I can see the energy flowing in all of the plants and the trees as well as from the house,” she said in shock, as she looked around at everything.“Certainly,” I told her with a smile, remembering the first time that I had been able to do that.“You will need to change the wavelength of your vision shortly,” I told her. “The moon will be setting in about 45 minutes or so, and sunrise won’t be until about 6:15. It will.