The last ghoul fights back and hits her in the stomach, which makes poor Elayne drop to her knees. The Ghoul takes it’s dark saw bladed knife from i...s belt and walks toward Elayne.She is now defenceless, as her sword is pinned in those two ghouls on the wall, but then she hears something. A soft desperate voice from the bed, the novice mage says just one word. “Lantern.” Elayne didn’t understand right away what she was saying, but as the Ghoul gets a firm grip of her long blond hair, she sees. I made no move to cover my nakedness. No one lived close enough to see onto our balcony and there was a strange freedom in being nude outdoors. Sighing contentedly, I smiled to myself. What was this feeling? Happiness? Bliss? My life was certainly far from perfect, but at the moment every day stresses were nowhere to be felt. I hummed the melody of our first dance from our wedding to myself and leaned on the railing to look upon my flower garden below. Feeling the sudden need to walk through. I'll have togive you more on Rene' another time. I met Rene' during an important time ineach of our lives... and I think...influenced one another to be true to theperson we felt we were.Susan continued to run the school for the year after the sale. At midyearshe received the Life Insurance and decided to liquidate the old and startanew. She sold the stock and took 6 months to travel in Europe (returningafter three). She came back early because she said she was lonesome forRene', but there is. By the time I got back, my muscles were starting to stiffen up a bit. I decided to take a long hot shower. I did and felt a bit better, but I realized I was going to have to start a more rigorous training regimen.I woke up feeling a bit worse for wear the next morning. Yes, I definitely needed to get an exercise program going. I stretched a little and felt a little better. After breakfast I started to get a list of questions going. I also decided to do a couple minor truth spells.One I would.