“What?” Sophia gasped. “You ... you...”“It wasn’t an accident I picked Chaun’s pocket. Though I feared I ran away too well and thought I...lost Xera. But she found me with her elfyness.”“You were going to steal the sword?” Angela asked, her face hardening. “From me?”“I’m a thief, Angela,” Minx said like it was the most casual thing in the world. She sneezed again. “Ugh, this dust is everywhere.”“And are you still planning on stealing it?”“Of course not,” Minx said, waving her hand. “I really. ””Me too Mike. Me too.”Just then an attending nurse came out to greet us...”Gentleman, you have two anxious women ready to leave our fine hospital! Mike if you want to bring your vehicle around out front, in 30 minutes I'll wheel Kim out to you.”--------------”Kim, you packed your bag so well! I'm impressed. You thought of everything!””Well I've been traveling most of the time for two years. I've had plenty of practice. Ash, please be honest with me about Jim. If he has reservations about you. Yes, he did keep a pretty big secret from her that may have involved his participation in the death of his and her's evil future son, (Fuck you, time travel bullshit), but he didn’t know that initially, which he explained to her. He feels that may have been a bit of an extreme response on her part.But he really should not be all that surprised. It seems like the Powers That Be have decided that this Irish-Mexican hero will never have a long-lasting happy relationship. Most of his girlfriends. “They say that while the villagers were born, lived, and finally died all around him during that time, the Protector never aged. Except maybe when he cried. They say that sometimes, he would talk of his one true love who waited for him on some distant shore. Then he would lament how that, with his ship at the bottom of the sea, he could never return home to her. And how he would never know true love again. Then he would disappear into the jungle for a while, and when he returned, he would.