It rang a couple oftimes."Dr. Thompson's office, how may I help you?" the voice on the other endsaid."I ah, my name is Elizabeth Blair and I would lik... to make an appointmentto see Dr. Thompson." Are you an existing or a new patient?" she asked."New patient but he was recommended to me by a couple of former patientsof his." I see," she replied. "May I ask what do you want to see the doctorabout?" I ah, well um," I started to stutter. I paused for a second to gather mythoughts, "I want to talk. ”I called Lamanr over to me and we went into the office where I introduced him to Fred. “Lamanr, I am a sky spirit that talks through Bob’s computing device. I wanted to talk to you to see if you had any more information from the previous shaman about the ‘bright time’ as Fretonto called it.”Lamanr was visibly shaken hearing a voice come from a box on Bob’s desk, but he responded with, “Sky Spirit Fred, I have a small amount of information about the ‘bright time’ as the shaman before me was. Later perhaps."She went to her room and flopped on her bed. She hated what she was going to do to the man she loved. She rehearsed the reasons once more and reached the same conclusion. She had to do it and she had to do it soon; this evening. She could not go on bottling it up. She thought about how she was going to do it but realised that much would depend on Steven's reactions and indeed her own emotions. She was getting nowhere.She went to the bathroom and washed her face. She returned to. “She has got to learn to stop micro-managing. From the people I have met here today, I have an idea mapped out, but you and Lee should be better at determining the status.”“As Empress, she can easily move people from a decad to one better suited for that region. I did it on Amity, and it seems to be working better for all concerned. The people like having their wizards close and accessible. Lee had been training hers to be Queens even if she wasn’t aware of it.”Sean nodded, “She likes to go.