His thick, solid soldier’s build glistened with sweat, moistening the tips of his brown bangs. The marble hallway gave way into an even bigge... hall, one that rivaled the Emperor’s throne room in Rome. The entire floor was made of polished marble, the cracks in it mortared with gold, with a deep red carpet running down the center. One wall was a set of man-made waterfalls, spilling over more smooth marble before pooling into a channel that led elsewhere. Green, vibrant plants grew along. "You move these molecules from place to place faster than the eye can see in some cases. The speed at which they move and the thinness of the cuts could mean that you could cause a great deal of damage before you even realized it." So my training will have to be as much about how not to do things as it is about doing them," I said aloud as I saw the other side of the coin for the first time.The rest of the hour seemed almost anticlimactic after that discussion, but I spent it growing my ability. Sandy excused herself from the card game and said she was going home. She said my comming home made her sad and lonely for her husband. After she left, while I was in the kitchen, I heard one of the girls ask, "How are we going to play with only three players?" There was some discussion and finally Beth said, "What about your husband?" Just then, Debbie called to me to come into the dining room. "How about you sitting in for Sandy?" she asked. I was kind of tired, but agreed. After a few hands. Normally ashamed of his singing voice in public, he sang along with the songs heedlessly, and he realised through all of it that he was happy. This was enough. As the band finished up with ‘Virginia Moon’ she felt his fingers, rough and thick, yet tender, tangled in hers. She was not of the damsel in distress persuasion, and had no interest in laying back and letting some man take control of her life. Dominic, though…there was something there that she had not counted on when she had first.