We look after ourselves and dress well, but Chloe has always had a confidence problem about herself. What woman hasn’t? On the night of the dinner I...had told Chloe we were going to dinner with a group of people from the industry, which we have done in the past, and I had booked a hotel close by to the venue. She dressed in her favourite Vivienne Westwood black dress, which zips up at the front, and instead of her normal bright coloured tights, I asked her to wear her hold up stockings. Her. I will now let her introduce herself to you all, and I hope you will enjoy her stories as much as I did. She sure is something special and somebody to cherish by us all.INTRODUCTIONBefore I start my stories, I want to give you some information about myself. At this moment, I live with my girlfriend and a good friend in a nice secluded house in the countryside. This gives us a lot of freedom and when the weather allows it, you can find us most of the time in the garden behind our house, without. Calling them a brigade is both premature, and an insult to the Marines."Subvocally, Sergeant Major Kowalski had the AI assign each of the 3400 or so recruits into twenty-four companies, one for each of his cadet instructors. He had flags placed around the perimeter of the massive parade ground opposite the base headquarters building. He then watched in utter despair as the cat herding began."Hey, Danny, good luck!" called a fellow cadet through their bluetooth-style communicators."Good luck to. It’s for an academy project.”“Surely the academy has a library full of information on alchemy.”“Not as much as you might think, so I’d like to utilize every possible resource. Alchemy is a scarcely-understood magic from what I’ve seen, but I’m hoping to reinvent the technique by incorporating knowledge from my old world. While there is no magic where Daniel and I come from, our knowledge of everything else is centuries ahead. When I started my research, I was hoping that magic would provide all.