The first one I looked in on was titled “How To Take the Knot”. There were perhaps a dozen or so women in the small room there, and I took a chair...in the back. There was a large video screen in one corner of the room, and a laptop on a lectern next to it. The instructor was the young raven-haird woman that had attended to me the night before – I’d learned her name was Yvette, and I caught her eye and smiled as I sat down. She was standing behind a large wide work-bench sort of table that was. I am in your debt, Miss Theresa." I hadn't noticed before—I was too busy admiring my new ring—but she was rubbing her hand in pain. I saw a discoloration on the back of her left hand that her right thumb kept rubbing.Without asking her permission, I reached out and took hold of her left hand. She tried to snatch it back, I wasn't letting go."What are you doing?" She was starting to panic.I focused on her hand, and poured my strength into it with a prayer for her complete recovery. The damage. It remained in the center of the forest grove. Like a small dragon about as tall as a horse, twice as long with its tail ending in a stubby club like ball of bone, and with stunted wings You knew it couldn't fly away from you as they couldn't fly, but it could run. You were lucky this one looks like it wants to kill you and is sticking around. Lucky you. However, the promise of gold for the Drake's hide and tail was too tempting to pass up, especially since they were so rare nowadays. It. It's only six blocks. And she has to get there. No matter what is out here. She told them she'd only be gone a few minutes. She didn't even drive, just walked.Damn them. Damn them for just turning away when she asked for help. But she shouldn't say that, she shouldn't even think that. Somehow she thinks that those people will need all the help they can get. This is not time to be calling curses down on anyone else.Oh GOD! What was that? Don't look around Amanda, don't look. Just keep walking..