To save all of my women. I needed to rip out my own heart.I didn't want to.My teeth ground together. What choice did I have? Rithi would undo her mira...le that saved my wives. All my women but Ealaín, Ava, Greta, and Carsina would die. I trudged against the weight in my boots. My heart beat faster and faster. It ached. I wanted to clutch it.Zanyia, padding beside me, looked up at me. Her ears twitched. Her tail swished and swayed, brushing my leg. How would she take it? She was the reason that. I have constructed a newly updated model schematic in which both frames will be used.”Ericson turned his head to look at the display screen beside Minerva’s face. Minerva accessed the controls of the display to show a blue screen followed by a skeletal structure of a human-like torso. The digital outlines were followed by schematics that depicted various sections of the frame itself. He walked up to the display to take a close look at everything.“It should look alright to take the lower portion. He wanted to stay with her all day, but insisted that she go home and rest. She agreed, only after he promised to take her out that night.It was very hard to leave her when he closed her door.He had the day off, but the situation had to be resolved. He had no idea how to do that, so he went looking for help in the only place he could think of to get answers to some of his questions. Well, there were two places he could go, but one of them would be professional suicide. He could have gone to see. But the only higher power was the Holy Order. If the Mage Master were indeed committing acts so antithetical to Inonni Enlightenment, his only recourse was Elder Yurton.The thought filled him with a sense of dread, but not from the simple anxiety of being scrutinized and judged by the Elder. Such things Jollis could set aside. This reached further, as if covering some horrible truth which he did not want to see.Jollis sighed. Sometimes knowing how his own psyche worked to such a degree was more.