“Yet you refuse to go after the rest of them?” Mage Fen hit back.“If I can find them and take them down, I will. I will not, however, go into Ir...n on the off chance I might find a couple. That in my opinion would be a complete waste of my Office’s and the Bureaus’ resources,” Morgana replied.“Mage Fen, you voted against the attack against the Coalition on Vanuatu, yet now when the odds of success are even less by a far wider margin, you wish the Enforcement Office to risk exposure to mundanes. "We're going to eat that. It feels gross.I want to, but I don't know if I can do it." You're swallowing, not eating and of course you can," said Holly,putting her sticky thumb near her mouth. "Go ahead taste it. Just give alick."April shivered from her nerves as she closed her eyes and gave a lickbefore opening them as everyone reacted, feeling ill."Not so bad I guess," laughed April, as they all cracked up again asWalter just stood there feeling satisfied."Oh you'll learn to love it," teased. He did so willingly. I started to rub Gabe’s shoulder and he just closed his eyes. Gabe said “take your time Brian, I’m walking home tonight.” Since I was walking home too I didn’t see the need to rush things, since no one was waiting on us. As I rubbed Gabe’s very muscular shoulder I could start to feel a tingling sensation running through my body. Just touching another boy was making my teenage hormones race through my body. I was no longer thinking about the “medicine” or his injury, instead. Our stored food lasted for a month of vicious rationing, but all too soon rioting and robbery took hold as hunger made tempers flare. By the end of the year the whole world was engulfed in Somalia level civil war, and civilization effectively collapsed. Twenty One Years later in a high tech survivor's compound in northern Australia the answer was found: Gaia, the spirit of the living Earth, had awoken in terrible pain from all the harm we were doing her, and with the glacially slow thought.