She certainly wasn’t fat like her husband, far from it, although she did hold Annie’s waterproof coat in front of her, camouflaging her shape some...hat. Her face looked as luminous as I remembered her almost every night in my dreams. She stepped forward when her daughter let him go, then she embraced him, too. I couldn’t watch, it was too gut-wrenchingly painful. This is why I stopped coming here years ago, only the pain felt like it was just yesterday. I looked away from the couple and my eyes. Everything fired off at the same time as a result of the powder in my nose, energy rushed through me and I walked in a jerky motion back to my room. The dorms were alive with voices behind doors, littered with toilet paper tossed, magazines torn and tossed askew through the short L shaped hallway that supported 10 rooms and no one had to share. I entered my room, everything had been set up for me at the start of the year, a fancy overhead projector with all of my art pieces on a slideshow. Defiently on the way out,” Taweret said. “Normally, for human women, when I did this in the past, I would use my magic to deaden the pain entirely. The delivery would be the quickest and easiest thing for them.”“Really?” Fumi asked.“Ha, ha, you don’t feel much at all, do you?” Taweret asked, pulling her hand away.“No, it actually feels nice, in fact. I enjoyed this when I gave birth to Akari. Normally my husband is responsible for catching the baby when it comes out, but you are here. The meeting seemed to break into smaller discussion groups, until Michael called everyone's attention back, stating that they had progressed to the point that several groups needed to be established to continue and start to design systems to protect the planet and solar system. He then took suggestions as to what groups should be established and who would chair each group. With that said, he charged Colleen, Rory, Maureen, Shae, and Shamus to recommend the groups, and the full group would meet.