I visited my doctor, stopped taking the pill, began a regimen of vitamins and exercise in preparation for the next stage of my life -- being a mother....I really enjoyed my career, but in my heart I knew it was time, time to start a family. I'll admit I was a bit reluctant and when I had been free of the possible side effects of the birth control pill I delayed making love to Robert for one, then two, then three weeks. On the fourth week of fertility I had to go out of town for a business trip. The man I went out with in Boston is not as physically endowed or as skilled with his equipment as Toby, but he is in a position to introduce me to the Dean of the School of Science."When Gloria also gave Susan a disapproving look, Susan apologized, "I'm sorry, Tiffany. I don't know what possessed me to say that. I've seen you in racially mixed company and should have known better."Tiffany looked back and forth between Susan and Toby before commenting, "I suspect that you're not as accepting of. "I suppose you're right. Fine then... You already know what I am. I toldyou that much during our dinner date. And by now you should realize thatthere are many like me. We call ourselves "Umbra" witches and we have manycovens throughout the world. We have a headquarters in the city and that'swhere we're currently being held."James nodded, unsurprised by the information so far."What did I see when you and Jeanne fought? Was that some kind of 'magic'?Whatever it was, I think she used it on me when. They were of the destroyed IRG complex. There were others of the parliament ruins with fires still burning.After lunch the joint chiefs were back in with the latest pictures and updates. Everything was going as planned, with a few exceptions. The B52s and B21s had made more bombing runs on selected targets this morning.The carrier planes had destroyed another two hundred military trucks, twenty portable radar trucks and SAM missiles that were in transport. They also destroyed twenty hardened.