If Tiff was really in the same room as her, she had to know, she had to see her with her own eyes. What she saw took her breath away. "Oh my god!"At f...rst she didn't quite recognize the shape in front of her as being human. Perhaps that's why she had missed it before. Now, as she stood on her wobbly legs, her eyes wide open and the remnants of her dreams long since erased, she could clearly see that she was not alone.She still wasn't convinced it was Tiff, but it was definitely a young girl.. A tragedy. While this revelation shocked me I knew it hadn'thappened yet. Maybe when it was the time I could change it. First I had toexplore the rest of my future. I had to know what scared the many pastversions of myself.What I found was disheartening. The downward spiral continued and I sawmyself stuck in my current job for decades. This meaningless job became mysole anchor to the world. My social life dried out and slowly I saw myselfbecome bitter and resentful. Hating the world and the. However I could hear her and it seemed the guy was French and she was talking to him in that language.The thing that intrigued me was that he was clearly trying to get off with her. The words I did not understand, but the tone and inflection, coupled with Penny’s flirty laughter, made it obvious. I wondered where this flirtation might lead, and stood back in the dark hall out of their line of vision. I watched.He would touch her arm, her shoulder, push her hair over her ear as he talked. I’d. He stood toe to toe with it, deflecting its strikes and striking back. Never backing up or giving ground, but unable to force the monster back either.“Hey,” the knight called over his shoulder, “I’m having a group of friends over to my house for a barbecue. You wanna come over?”“You want me to come to your house? ME?” he stared in shock at the knight.No one had ever said anything like that to him before. Always the monster had driven them away. They’d come around for a while, but inevitably it.