These puny mortals were right to be frightened by his presence.“I understand master.” Alvura replied, her feathery high-toned voice on the verge o... faltering, “I will not fail the order.”“As you are still an apprentice, your objective is primarily surveillance and information gathering.” The master continued, his monotone voice boomed in the minds of his followers, “You will be assigned a liaison that will meet with you when opportunity presents itself. In the event that your objective changes. We had arrived at a strip mall, with several large chain stores as well as a lot of much smaller stores."Where are we going?", I asked."It's right around the corner," she said as we got off the bus and started walking into the crowd.Again, everyone stared at us, apparently disbelieving what little we were wearing, especially Keiko."Here we are," Keiko announced.It was a sporting goods store that specialized in skate- boards, scooters, and in-line skates. We walked into the store and immediately. My muscle tone was poor and my body was flabby from lack of exercise. Gradually we strengthened my muscles and regained a trimmer shape, I was finding that balance was a problem, but when everything else strengthened I soon regained that skill.Jen used Sally's car to go to uni, she was completing her final modules for a business degree. Sally continued to take care of me, we were soon taking small walks, gradually stretching them out until I could walk at a steady pace for an hour or more. As. I lay like that, with my eyes closed for several minutes before I began to cry. Gently at first, but with more and more strength until I was weeping loudly. It did not last long, only 5 minutes or so, but as I began to feel my mood lighten a little I understood better the seeming rush we had all been in to leave Construct. Later I confirmed it with a few questions at the dinner table, and a phone call to Ginny.We had all felt the need to mourn.The remainder of our evening was spent just getting.