“What makes you think she’ll tell me anything?”She’s like a mother to you. She adopted you and raised you. You know, they really should start ...eaching you as children instead of waiting until you’re adults.“It’s too dangerous with our powers being too uncontrollable,” the witch explains. “Besides, many of us lose that power when we reach adult hood.”It’s a shame then that so much of your life is wasted.“It would be if we didn’t live longer than the average person.”Well, I guess that’s true. I was dead. The murk was just the mess I’d made of my life. Maybe I would have eternity to clear it up. For some reason I remembered just when I’d lost Hope.My mid-life crisis hit the day I realized thirty-three was half-way through my life expectancy. Of course, technically, having already survived Viet Nam, I should have had a much longer life expectancy than the sixty-six that was estimated in 1982, but apparently I had seriously over-estimated.At thirty-three, I’d just been promoted to full. Anyhow here is the story.I was in a lab working on the computer systems doing maintenance of thesoftware and the hard wars of one of the units. There was a new assistantworking in the lab carrying samples they were doing DNA work on frogs tosee if the ability to change gender could be used to change organs like aportion of the liver into a kidney. I was disconnecting the unit and I wason my knees in front of this desk when the assistant walked by stumblingover my feet. She nearly fell but I saw. I am pleased to see you are doing better!" As am I, M'hul," Senshi said as he grabbed him by the arm and led him to a private table. I followed along but suggested to Pteri that she go fill our supplies and send over the innkeeper for our orders. She always hated listening to men boast while they drank.After a few minutes of wine and barely edible sausages (though Senshi was on his second plate) I asked M'hul, "So, old friend. Why ever did you tell Morgan that I was the man for this.