. maybe something happened to your vessel, and it was lost.”“That is a very remote possibility. The magic of the vessel is extremely powerful, if...limited in it's scope.” She wondered for a bit longer, but eventually gave up with a shrug. “It is probably nothing. If it was truly important, my creator would given me the knowledge.”“Alright, so you were in the vessel for two thousand some-odd years, and then I released you?”"Exactly," Dawn said as she chewed, "when you played the tune, you. Dan and Cricket were back in fifteen minutes. By then Bridget, Taylor, Athena, Rose, Heather, Matthew, and Julie had joined the group. Owen sauntered over just as the pair sat.Owen said, “Hi Don. Glad to see you on this side of the continent for a change.”“Hi Owen. Cricket had given me a real education about this place. I had no idea such a place existed. Your size or membership is amazing. The philosophy is so aligned with my own thinking I have yet to hear anything I don’t fully agree with. Her dreams are back and they are filled by David’s presence in them. They are mere dreams but to her, they feel like nightmares. It is days like this that she wishes for days when she had none.In walks a black clad symbiont. He looks just like all the other males. He’s large, muscular and ugly. Where Beth has curly black latex-like hair, these guys are bald. The baldness and mouth full of razor sharp white teeth makes look very frightening. And Janice can sympathize with them. Just seeing her. "Everyone is gone for the day," she said."Good, I wanted to spend sometime just the two of us talking before the day was over," said Bart.He was sitting over on the sofa, before he had black leather furniture in his office, but Cindi had convinced him that a nice navy blue cloth set would look more professional. She smiled as she walked over and sat in the chair across from him. "Sounds serious," she mused."You know I appreciate everything you do here, and business has never been better." But,".