Light on darkness. Behind him a shadow arises. Sinister. Threatening. Indistinct. His own fears? Betrayal.It was past midnight when I cleaned my suppl...es. I’d done it again—let my emotions take me into the canvas. This time with no music score. The last one, Desperate Love, I’d sent to the vault while it was still wet. So different from my usual painting that it could be by a different artist. I’d captured something different. In addition to shape and color and shadow, I’d captured the emotion. " In deference to Mitchell, she'd said little since arriving at his office, but now, for the first time, she did more than just shake Shiggie's hand. She launched into rapid-fire Japanese (much to his surprise and obvious delight), and I knew they had established instant rapport."Explain to him that we're going to lunch," I said to Amy. "And ask him if Italian is OK."She did as I asked -- I think -- and soon we were back in the parking area, climbing into the Escape. Suddenly, I saw a. There had been a lot of theories and speculation about portals since Tetsuo had placed Tenkei into orbit, but they all agreed that the maximum distance at which a portal would work was somewhere around 150,000km, or less than half the distance to the moon. Yet the portal Todd had just seen was well over twice that distance."We suspect that Alice was in phase one of MORFS when she came through a portal to the city," Tetsuo explained. "Somehow the portal affected her body, and now she has the. Unexplainable things occurred just then. I opened my mouth to say something, but I didn't know what exactly to say. My legs wanted to go back to other boys, but they were locked in a set motion. My heart was confused with this weaken feeling inside it. What was it I felt just then? Later on, that day, along with those boys, had just become fantasies in my dreams. Trevor and I rarely spoke of that day, as it was quietly tabooed. Whenever one of us did mention that day, our voices grew with.