Of course, I was a lapsed Catholic, but a secret pagan side of me thought of it as Yule, which was the true origin of Christmas, anyway. Anyway, the p...rties tended to get a little wild at our company, a publishing firm where I was one of the rising young editors. Many of us were single young adults, and it was not unheard-of for a few people to get laid at the thing each year, often in a poorly lit or even dark section of the floor where it was held (sometimes, even on the elevators or other. The demon is here in Gynt, and we must root it out before it extends its poisonous influence. The danger we face is more important than your precious healers, and you continue to defy me. They are tools of the demon. You may think them harmless, JaJa, but they are the true Lilith spawn. They must not be allowed to continue their work. They are fraudsters, JaJa. Their petty magics give comfort, but true healing can only come using the Church's methods. Surgery is the new magic, JaJa, cutting out. ."Ranma stated, looking off to the side. She really hated it when thingslike these had to happen, why did it always come down to weird stufflike this? Although, at this point, she was somewhat used to resortingto these options.The Next day...Ryoga's left eye twitched, he couldn't believe he had to do this! Thelost boy was actually holding hands with his sworn enemy Ranma! Henoticed that some men were staring at them, and even weirder, someseemed to be looking like they wished they were in. All of it's Mac's doing, lightening the ship, the slingshot around Eden's sun, a bunch of smaller things that have cut the time—" Kiss me arrse anitherr time, Firrs'," interrupted MacPherson. "Tell 'em th' rres'." Well... ," said Cromartie, clearly loathe to cut short his fulsome praise of his captain's maneuvers. "The rest, I'm afraid, is the bad news. We're still six hours short." What does that mean?" Heisinger pressed. "That we'll have to endure six hours' worth of the nova's radiation? Can.