. “Good morning Mr. Knight”, said his homeroom teacher, Mr. Toer. “Morning”, Jess replied back. He took his seat and started on the homework ...e didn't finish last night. Math was a particularly hard subject for Jess. He was just one bad grade away from failing the subject for the semester, but at this point that was the last thing on his mind. Staring at the blank sheet of paper in front of him, his mind started to wander. “What am I even doing here? I have no purpose, no desire, no happiness.. Though mentally more powerful, they also weren't as fast as Sam and his sister.Then there was the oddity of Mellos. He had to practically break a few bones in her before she was completely healed. Sam rubbed his head, could it be that she carried wasting disease that her farther had? He'd have to check her after this was over to make sure.So far, he thought, there was him and Thantas. Mellos was coming along almost at his and Thantas's level. Raydy was right there, considering she had a few of. And I'm sure you know that scientists have been working on ways to amplify a portaler's ability." Yes, but--"Plek glanced up and down the hall. "Now this is just between you and me. I have some friends who are working on it, and with this amplifier the weakest portaler could cut though your field like a hot knife through butter." But it is classified." For all the good that does," the old portaler sniffed. "The security in the science companies are not the greatest, and I don't doubt that a. . .gah, hum, uh okay, so it wasnt Shakespeare…Idont think you could do better. The car, uh goddess, uh womans name wasJackie, a vision of beauty that I had met over the summer. Uponlearning of my condition she had promised me that one day she would takeme around the fraternities of my college (nope, never gotten drunk, donedrugs, or been to a frat) so that I could unwind, meet people, and saythat I had gotten drunk at least once while in college. This appeared tobe the day. If I.