"The gaze upward at the endless blue. Kieran really is a summer person. All the time the sun is out and it's warm he'll be out here looking at the sky... wishing for wings. Me, I'm a winter person. I want the ice and the snow and the sky white, the sun hanging like a disc of thin ice. Then it is time for the hunt, to race across a frozen world after the scent of warm red meat. But Kieran wants wings, and it's the one thing I can't give him."Do you want to go for a run?"Kieran laughed and ruffled. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes, drawing on the mana cautiously. I formed it into a shield around me and slowly headed to the door. Still I felt no lingering effects of the testing and that was in the back of my mind as I opened the door. I looked around the hallway outside of my room and still saw no one. That made no sense as I knew that there were supposed to be nurses on duty at least. I kept my shield in place and made my way down the hallway. I slowly made my way up to the exit. “What were you doing at the Freak Fair?”“Making sure something that was promised to me would be delivered...” Tanya grinned at him. “Something for our ‘toyroom’...”“Great! What is it?” Frank asked, suddenly more interested. Anything she might pick up at a place like that would certainly have a sexual angle to it.“It won’t arrive until tomorrow,” Tanya said. She grinned at his apparent disappointment. “But, if you’re really nice to me, I’ll let you watch it being used on me...”Taking the hint,. I got to thinking I hope I didn't push too hard into her last night and maybe had hurt her. I heard the water stop and the door open as she went into her room. I was putting the plates in the dish washer, when the phone rang. I answered it, and it was Natalia on the other end, asking for Rachelle. I told her that she was getting dressed and that I would have my daughter call her when she gets dressed. Rachelle came out a little later and asked who was on the phone? I told her it was Natalia and.