User blog comment:The Reptile King/Reptile Kingdom What Do's/@comment-31401828-20170817163817/@comment-30014014-20170821023643

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<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">From the south, a man walks in for the first time, dressed in the sun's favorite color, orange. A strange tool adorns his left arm. Shaped in gold and bearing three hexagones, vestiges in blue, they shine with radiance against the sun's boontiful rays.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"So, this place is the kingdom I hear about...quite a place to be heated"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">He looks around, seeing a vast jungle filled with a myriad of things to look at. Be it a pack of raptors running afar hidden in tall grass, smaller animal lapping away at the nearest riverbed or others resting in a communal sunbathing

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"The sun really is strong here. My photo forge is already amassing heat. Perhaps I should put it in cooling therapy mode..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The man raises his gilded arm toward him and presses a button, causing his smallest hexagone to open up, a few buttons available to him. His finger approaches one of them, pressing it gently. In an instant, a low pitch noise barks out from it, startling the animal that had gathered around him for leaves and water. HIs corporal form briefly inhabitates blue hexagones, the same who shatters in a frigid manner.

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<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The man walks over, looking over a distant mountain he clearly feels like exploring and excavating. He whistles.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Now that mountain looks insteresting. High, easily defendible from multiple arrays, large space to incorporate my inner crop system, looks like a place to accumulate heat. The inertia batteries will do wonders inside."

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<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody continuously walks in circle,  looking over a small tablet presented before him, floating with a gyroscopic gem charged with a positive, dragging on the top of the tablet limed with a negative charge. Constantly looking over his past months, still unable to believe the easiness he had around his task of building a home.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Meanwhile, the panels have already packed enough heat to last me two years of winter. I should consider expanding".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Thinking as he was, his eyes suddenly widen. His mind buzzes him with an important matter, one he forgot while reveling in his state-of-the-art home.

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<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">He walks out, as steam evaporates from around his face, metal proceeding to knit itself to it like a second skin. An engineer's armor, typicaly automatic in some manner. Guy's armor must be riddled with hidden weapons.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody Castadian goes outside, passing through his articifial minig cave. He spares a glance at his work in progress, watching the ores barely present on the visual scale. He continues on, dwelling outside of his place to walk to a local minig cave, one that is about 30 minutes of walking distance.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Today' I'm totally taking a surplus. Going out like this can be quite dangerous".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">His eyes strafe left and right, searching for danger. But so far, all he sees is a few baby raptors taking a sip on a river pond, their parents sleeping under a wide tree, herbivorous creatures chewing further on plants, a lamia cornered by a few order soldiers, a nearby geyser, a--

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">--Hold on! A lamia cornered? By the order? Here? Why would they even be here in the first place? Jody stops his walk and races his thoughts.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"So, all attempts at grabbing territory has apparently gone south for them. The local absolutely detest their encampements. Nobody will even work with them ever since the maddened engineer incident..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody's mind recalls a silver and golden Rath asking him of a way to further dismantle the insanity that their beloved had suffered at the hands of the Ordos in their attempt to make every man present deathly afraid of monsters, be they girls or not. Seems their reputation has further slipped down the barrel with that performance, resulting with even mre of their camps ripped to shreds. The men capped here weren't even wanted at the end.

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<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody pulls out the hilt of his sword, a gilded array of metal forming on it as the blade. His photon forge gauntlet, detecting its onwer about to enter a combat state with the increase in adrenaline, a low pitch noise simulating ignition comes from it as Jody's being is coated in a hardlight construst of hexagones, both serving as a shield and offensive asset.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The heat around him increases in dangerous level, burning off the soil under his feet. HIs first move was also the last. Pressing a button on the hilt of his sword, it curves, amassing the heat from within him to be embbeded on the curve. He hurls it straight at the soldiers who were too busy poking the lamia with their spears. The heat instantly pushes them backward, charring their own armors off with the excees heat. They scream as the intense heat continues to rid them of their clothes.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"WHat the hell is happening?!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"I don't know, sir! It's like the sun itself is setting against us!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Get it off! It must be some magic! Use your arcane dampeners!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The soldiers, bewildered by their melting armors, rub a special crystal on them, thinking of ridding themselves of the heat at the very least, thinking it to be of a magic source. How unfortunate...

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Oh well, they'll find out soon enough..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Soon reduced to their underwears, waxed off spears as well, they run off in panic, still feeling the scorch licking their skin but not quite going further. They'll be fine in a few hours. The lamia herself, fearing for her life was quite perplexed at the ball of semi-light construct tether to them like glue. Her azur slit eyes had turned to the one man skin of heating hexagone, awed by the sight she was witnessing as solar pigment turned to blue, a cooling state.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Neanwhile, Jody was looking at the men running for their lives even though he had set his thing to minimum heat.

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<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Hmm?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The man turns to the lamia sporting an elegant wear, an oceanic garment, though with an open cleavage, as expected. Over her exposed bit lingers a necklace with five tiny golden medals. Her ears sport the same gold encrusted with a blue gem in them. Her hair knotted in a ponytail, also attached via gold. Looking down, even her tail happened to be adorned.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody looks at her but quickly diverts his eyes, easily doing to without her notice thanks to his googles with a dark glass sheltering his eyes from the heat of his photon. (Huh, must be some high important one, she be.)

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Thank you dearly for stopping these unruly men back there! I was simply gathering water from a specific source as asked by my mistress, but then they ambushed me and..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her eyes slightly widen.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Oh dear! My mistress! I have to go back before her gets worried!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The lamia quickly picks up a dented vase and slithers to the geyser nearby, grabbing 10 time the amount of water available to the vase. Must be a magic one. Jody slightly nods at this vase of hers, wondering what complex arcane made it so.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">But, his thought is quickly dismantled as the lady comes near him with said vase. She bows to him.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Once again, thank you so much sir! My name is Elona. Please do rememeber it next time we meet".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody shakes his head a bit, getting rid of his spacing out.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Hum, sure. They call me Jody. Jody Castadian"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Jody you say? Nice ring. I'll look forward to meet you again"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Elona leaves, parting him with a strange look in her eyes. Jody does not take note of it, thinking it to be a monster thing. Though her name lingers in his mind, he is apt to put it in the darkest corner of his mind, returning to his primary assessement.

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<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Diary entry number 5.1

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Codename: Where the sun goes to get mauled

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<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody is currently sleeping on his custom made recliner. The ambient heat sure seems to help him doze off. So much that he doesn't seem to hear the knocks on his door. Or rather, triple-layer reinforced titanium vault door. The knocking continues, muffed by his snorting, at least unti a loud bang was heard, echoing all the way to his ears. Startled, his photon forge enable, exiling a low pitch noise.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Meanwhile, on the other side of the vault...

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Mistress, I don't think he's in here".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Nonsense, Elona! I can smell his spirit energy from here. Surely you must be able to as well. The heat around must be blotting his ears"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Well, I don't think he'll be happy to see a dent in his door"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Elona! You worry for his door? My bracelet had been shattered by it. If I can deal with that, I think he'll live with a slightlty damaged door".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Slightly was an understatement. A large dent was present across the titanium door, causing Elona to wince in embarrassement while her mistress was busy trying to salvage what was left of her broken bracelet. Suddenly, a low pitch noise comes to their ears, prompting Elona to spur in a panic.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Oh no, I've hear this before! It's of his doing!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Really? WHat does that mean?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Well..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The answer came to them as the door opened in a brutal fashion. The two dodged out of the way, only to be faced with a man pigmented an increasing heat scorching the floor beneath him. A semi-light construst depicting a solar rifle was in hand, aimed at the two.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Loud bang! Echoed to my chamber. Sure to have left a door in a damaged state! Invasion in progress? Robbery? Warring state? A bounty?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sir Jody! It's me, Elona! Please don't shoot us!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Wait. ELona?! WHat are you doing here?!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The larger lamia, identified to him as a titanialamia slithers in front of her servant, arms crossed.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"I'd be happy to explain the reason of our presence. BUt first..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her tail points at Jody's solar rifle, while one of her hand began venting wind toward her.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Nobody likes to speak while a strange weapon is pointed at them in a hostile manner"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Well, you dented my door..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"...just because you refused to hear us in your dozzing state..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody sighs, the rifle fading in a burst of heat.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Fair enough..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"And whatever state you are too. Hard to induce conversation with one of us turning more and more like the sun".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody's photon forge shifts to cooling therapy mode, the shielding fiery hexagone turning blue and breaking apart. The two lamias sigh in relief as the man turns back, measuring the extended damage to his door. He facepalms in grief.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Of course it wasn't going to do much without their shielding. Better set on that".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"So, you're the one who saved my servant, are you?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">He turns around, still embbeded in his engineering armor to a proud titanialamia, presenting a shy Elona before her.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Well, I just made the pursuers run away. Nothing more".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Nothing more?! I hope you realize this is one of my own you went and saved, do you?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">She needed say no more. Jody knew how powerful titanialamias are. How they could easily gather followers without doing so much.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Anyone looked upon favoribly by my servants is bound to be in my good graces".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Well, I do thank you for that, but I'm not looking for a prize. YOu need not to spend anything on me".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohh, but I do think you could use something..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">She pushes her servant forward, the latter blushing in blatant ways.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Mistress!!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Nonesense Elona, you had your eye on this man, didn't you? Always skipping out on our daily 'communal' service with my husband, even when proposed to some 'alone' time with him and I. Always going back to the same place each week, almost waiting for someone..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Elona blushes even more in embarrassement, to the dismay of Jody, who pained to understand the situation. He scratches his head, forgetting he is encased in armor.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Mistress...?!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"My dear, you've been doing this for a year now. How you managed to convince yourself that you could avoid any attention by going in the exact same place for a year, 2 months and three days without anyone noticing, I do not know".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"All right! All right!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Elona stutters slightly, face as red as berries. Jody, watching all of this still gazes in the dark, not remotely understanding of the situation. This lack of knowledge has him turning away to inspect the damage on his triple-layer titanium. The same time Elona and her mistress had done arguing in her case.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">-ahem-

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">-ahem-

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody's head spins a bit, a semi-light construct torch in hand and a a bar of titanium in the other.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohh..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">He drops the bar, making a loud -whack- as it punctures the stone floor under it.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Great, now I have two things to fix".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"As I was saying..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Elona's mistress slithers forward, hands uncrossed.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"...my servant here seems to be 'drawn' to you. Looks like that stunt you pulled against those self-entitled white knights has really impressed her. So I thought I'd let her stay here for a while".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody raises an eyebrow, slowly rising his photon forge arm.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Why, is she in trouble? If they came back, I can--

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"At ease, man of science. She is in no sort of danger as of now. I just thought you two could use the company."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">As she says this, Elona covers her hands in embarrassement, unable to hinder out the blush that evaporates from her cheeks.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Hum...sure. But, for how long? It seems kind of harsh to throw one of your own away to a stranger's house"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohh, don't worry about that. She knows her way back and I have someone in case she's lost. Besides, why so picky about someone inhabitating your settlement? Usually, most are happy with a bit of company"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sure..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody was compliant, but his placidity had taken hold, once again, thinking it to be simple monster things they do. The mistress had by then turned to her servant, hands on shoulders.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"All right then. Elona, your things are at the door. I'm sure he'll help you with them. If anything happens, be sure to give me a call, alright?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Right, right!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her gaze turns to Jody, who this time had been the one with crossed arms.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Now, I expect you to take good care of her, all right? I want her to be like a queen here. That means, no funny business!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody briefly raises his shoulders, listening with a back thought.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sure".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"I'm serious, sun wielder!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her voice had risen enough to make the earth quake, causing him to lose his balance a bit.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"No. Funny. Business".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ok...ok. I hear you. No funny business. Don't worry a bout it"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Hearing him say that makes her ease a bit.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Glad to hear it. Now, I'll be off. Her lugages are at the front. Farewell and I'll be in touch with her".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">With that said, she is out, slithering with advanced haste, leaving Jody and Elona alone and staring at each other. Jody sighs, his mind wondering in what kind of predicamment he found himself in. Of course, the words 'no funny business' lingers on his mind, obviously referring to the fact that he is a man about to receive a woman in his home.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Well, standing idle won't do anyone any good. Jody, being very careful as he is, walks over to the entrance, under Elona's watch as he grabs on to her lugages and starts walking back in. She slithers toward him, hands open to take some.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"No, don't worry about it. You just go in and relax. I'll settle these in".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Nearly avoiding her, her quickly scutters back inside, leaving her the door open. Entering inside, she was immediately amazed by the amount of things within. Things working in different manners. Things she has not seen before. Most important, however, was the ambient heat that surges within her.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Whoa! This is quite something!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her snake-like attribute has already compeled her to fondly think of this place, though now, she was looking for the man who was to be her host. Noise coming from the upper floor had given her direction.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The stairs, built in polishe marbled and dim light had caught her eye, bathing in the sun's pigment. Coming up, the noise she heard once again echoes to her pointy ears. THe door to the source is wide open, exposing her to a room built for a queen.A literal queen. The bed structure made with special polished wood, in a blackened color to accent the gold ornaments The furnitures are limed and cared for in the same manner, with the windows opened up by four ways and up the ceiling for the sun to cater to her reptilian needs.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">For feeding needs, a cryogenic fridge installed on the edge of her gigantic room is present. Two frosted crystals tend to the freezing of the stock, functionning with the power of the sun. Literally everything was here for her to comfort her with.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Wow! This room..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"All for you. Your superior wanted me to make sure you'd have a positive experience here. So..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Well, this is amazing! I-I don't know what to say!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"NO need to say anything. Just explore the cracks and nooks. If you need anything else, just holler"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Elona giggles at the prospect of laying in a big bed like this. Covered in euphoria, she springs for a hug towards Jody, only for the latter to springs his hands forward.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Madam, there's no need for that. I need to get to work anyway".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohh..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">She stops dead in her tracks.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Alright".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody leaves the room, a few tools in hands.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Remember, call if you need anything"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Right".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">WIth that said, Jody exits the premise, leaving Elona to quickly plounge on the bed, mesmerized by the perfect heat collected over time. This was sure to be a comfortable stay.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">But, as fate had it...

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sir, would you be kind to come forward?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her voice reaches to the lower floor where Jody happens to be working on a small crystal.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"What do you need? I can send something your way".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"I would prefer to say it in person. Please?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody sighs, leaving his table to walk upstairs. He wanders to her room, opened to Elona's mirror gazing. Her eyes shift to him, revealing a pair of glasses bespectacting her. Jody, if anything became speechless. HIs eyes were as wide as possible, bewildered by what he sees. Though his effort to keep his expression as idle was commendable.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"So...do they fit?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">She slithers slightly left and right, a bit flustered by their presence, yet in need of them. Seeing the way he looks at her doesn't help. However, her words shake his head.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Hum...yea. Yea they do"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Really?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her expression brightens a bit, causing him to starts blushing. At this point, his attire quickly coats him, detecting an anomaly in his composure. This sudden turns of event startles her.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Yea, yea they do".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">He walks away, unwilling to subject himself further to the anomaly that prompted his suit to activate. Maybe a pulse of adrenaline here or his fight or flight instincts going haywire. Elona smiles despite his quick departure, her eyes closing.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Thank you".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">-

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">A few days forward, Jody happens to be working in the basement of his workshop. Currently, his process of gathered materials was the focus of this day. Two days to collect, one day to process. The rest is spent making and selling the result of his things.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Though as usual, the processing had already been done, leaving him time to tinker with a crystal of electrical applications. Busy as he was, he didn't have the awareness to hear Elona slither behind him.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Good morning, sir!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The small distance enables her to make a hug from behind. A hug that would never come to be, due to his attire's venting system showering him with a coat of wind. The slippery wind that disables any mean of contact from her.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Well, good morning, madam".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sir, what is this?!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Well, unlike your kind, us humans aren't too fond of the excess heat. Tha attire I wear is something to help me cope with that by expulsing hot wind from around me while making cold wind breeze through me".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohh...well, what are you doing?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Doing? You mean this?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody gets off his chair and backsteps twice, to let her see a few tools and  the yellowstone crystal. Elona points directly to the item of her attention.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Yes! Especially this lttle gem".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"It's a yellowstone. They're used to power certain tools and things. Right now, I'm fitting it for applications".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohh, sounds fun. Can I watch you?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody looks at Elona, eyes shining behind her glasses. She seems rather interested in his work. Jody couldn't help but to blush a bit, gazing at her with those on her face. So radiant...

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Instantly, his attire shifts to suit an anomaly. Once again, it catches her by surprise, leaving the two with silence in their mouths.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"W-well, can I?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"You sure about that? It may not be your center of interest"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Yes, if you don't mind?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody switches on his photon forge, branding a heated chair in existence before her on the other side of the table. Elona fixes her glasses a bit and goes to sit, hands joined. Her face turns to a serious one, awaiting his start.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Strange one she is...

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody sits on his side of the table and resumes, feeling her gaze upon his fingers at every second. Literally tethered to his manipulation.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Fast forward a few more days, it was beginning to be clear for Jody Castadian that his V.I.P. guest would not be contect to stay put. This morning, he left the basement of his room to walk in the kitchen, only to spot Elona in an apron making something up. The place has shown signs of being throroughly being used with many tools and plates on the dishwasher. Elona herself looked like a housewife of all things.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Good morning sir!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her voice vibes with an unconditional joy, even with her hands as staine from the meat, meat refined in the center of the table adorned with berries, minty leaves and miniature accompanies.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">''This one is quick to discard her 'particular' highness. Better fix her up to optimal level.''

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Good morning, madam! I see you've been busy this morning. Did any of the tools around here malfunction?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Oh no, I wanted to put something on myself. Feels much more natural".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"I see. Well, you look a bit tired. How about you take a rest? I'll handle the rest"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"No, I'm fine, sir. I know 6 in the morning is a bit high, but it's nothing"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Of course she's trying to stand me up...

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Part of him couldn't help but admire her. For someone of her hierarchy, she sure seemed easily comfortable with chores. MOre than he'd admit. However...

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Treat her like a queen!

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Madam, if you wouldn't mind?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"WHat is it, sir? and please, no need for formalities".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">We'll see about that.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"It would seem I have forgotten something of mine. I was thinking you could get it for me"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohh, of course! What is it?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"A small application bracelet for a crystal. I was about done with it"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"It'll be done, sir! No worries!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">She quickly slithers besides him as he pushes himself out of her way. However, the moment she crosses the door frame, a sudden exhaust enfeebles her, causing her sight to be blur as well as losing her sense of balance.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohh, it seems I may have overestimated my...my..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her consciouness is gone, letting her fall straight to an adorned semi-solar construct chair. Jody watches her do so as his photon forge fades out of existence.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sleeping serum. Never thought I'd need it, but whatever. Back to bed she goes"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">He throws a disk underneath the chair and by extension, her. In an instant, the disk dismantles and flashs under her. The blinding light is brief and dissipates rather immediately, with Elona as well. THe lady sleeps in her bed, clothes shifted back to her more prestigeous ones.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody's nose catches wind of her dish on the table. Thinking himself to be a bit hungry, he takes a sample, but soon realizes she was more on the money than he had initialy thought.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">''Damn! This dish is legit! Not what I expected from royalty!''

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">He ends up finishing the whole thing without noticing. A combination of hunger and care prepared in it had gotten the right of him, leaving the man with a large plate empty as the air.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Later, in the afternoon, Elona, shifts around the bed, rising up but not quite.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">-yawn- "Ohh, where am I? My room?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">She rises up, glossing over the fact her clohes had been changed and slithers downstairs only to find her dish empty. A warmth engulfs her heart with sight, prompting her hands to join her chest.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"If the sir liked this, I might as well see if I can do more to thank him".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">A delicate smile adorns her face, sparks in eyes behind the glasses...

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">--

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">As months pass, Jody had well accepted that Elona, despite being one in a titanialamia's high estimed court, was very prone to do things not befitting one of her title. It became harder for him to 'damage control' anything she wished to do in her endeavor help him.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Te most recent one had her involved in a dusty mine, constantly clearing the dust clinging to her clothes as they tried to gather the ores in their raw states, to sell as refined bars. This place had long been untapped because of said condition, but she insisted on accompanying him.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The man had suggested her a less 'active' seclution of the cave with asthetic care from his tools, all rejected up front by her, who had always lingered close to him. Even in the thick of it all, there she was, radiant even with all the dirt and dust bewildering her peerless skin and cloth. Nothing seemed to stop her from smiling so much. Almost as if they weren't here at all. He couldn't take his mind off of her face, his suit responding in kind...as usual.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Regardless, the day has been a rather busy one, leaving the two with a rather advanced exhaustion. Jody walks back home with Elona in front of him. The lady slowly slumbers on the firt sofa she sees, worked out to the bone, panting quite a bit.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"This is quite a lot of things you gather daily, sir".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody closes the door behind him, standing tall despite his exhaustion. HIs mind was already thinking of how he'd process them.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"It is. Which is why I warned you about the strenous activity beforehand"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"I know, but I don't regret it...if it'S a way of thanking you for greeting me in such a manner"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her eyes turn on him, grateful to his services provided. Though they convay a subtle something else. Jody was currently looking over the content of his bags.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Well, you don't need to push yourself for that. You really don't".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"I know that..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Elona takes a more comfortable slumber on the sofa, eyes diverted from him. Her hands are apart from her chest, displayed in an oddly inviting pose. Alas, Jody's attention is far from a gaze to her.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Right, so, you rest up here and I'll begin preparations for tomorrow".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"...right..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her voice lacked the usual pump up attitude of hers, replaced a dim resignation waned under a heavy sigh as Jody goes to pick up the second bag and stow away in the basement. Elona, sensing him gone from the living room turns to her side, hand on shoulders. Night was falling and the living was nay the best place for her to sleep. But, exhaustion ended up having much more of an impact than she was used to...

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<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Mere hours have passed. Elona expression a difficulty to sleep, like many before. A recent condition that became present. Jody had attributed it to a lack of heat and substentially increased the heat retenue in her room. Her constant shifting left and right fights against that attempt...

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">...one shaking her awake.

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<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Elona stands sitting, somehow on her bed. The heat insulator had been on her all this time, but to no avail. Her eyes catch a miniature gyro stationned at her mirror. A heavy sigh escapes her caramel lips.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohh, sir brought me up here. How kind of him, but..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her hands once again go to cover her shoulders, showing a distinctive lack of warmth. Getting off her bed, she takes her glasses and slithers out of her room, downstairs to the basement.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Inside was total darkness, as no window was opened during the time of stars. She could see the dim ambers of the miniature factory lit up once in a while, next to a shovel stacked with coal. An orange crystal is embbeded on it, which she recognizes as a Fierystone, one used to grant extra heat based on the kinetic movement of the user.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Right now, her interest was not drawn to the shovel or really anything in this place. Elona looks carefull in the room, spotting another door in the distant wall. Her instincts were slowly agitated, drawing her in. She goes forward, slowly opening the door...

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">A singular bed lingers in the small room. A modest one at that. It's only distinction was that the mat was white, laying on metallic black bars. Elona couldn't help but feel a bit distraught over the lack of anything in his own personal space. Well, save for a few crystal on tablets.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">With a bit of a blush on her cheeks, and as careful as serpently possible, she creeps up to the bed and slowly, but really slowly undoes the sheet covering the man before her. His suit often seen during the man, stationned in a hard glass case besides the bed. Part of her mind thanked the heavens as she often saw it as the second layer between them.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody was sleeping deeply, oblivious to her presence. Her presence creeping in the mat facing him. How peacefully he was sleeping. Especially in a place like this, complete contrast to the rest of his settlement. Her face is close to his, heart-throbbing violently. This must be it then, the 'heat' she longed for. Must be, for her instincts are going haywire, though she plays them in a calm manner, rather taking one of his hands to place it on her cheek.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Warmth fills her touched cheek, sending her to sigh in a long tone.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"So soft. Even with all the work he puts his hand through".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her whispers fall under his sleepy radars, prompting her to get closer, their chests mere centimeters from each other. Leaning in, she set out to wake him up. Slowly.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">~Hey! Wakey, wakey! Sir?~

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">No response. No matter. She gets closer, closing the gap between their respective chests. Warmth applies even more to her, mostly going to her cheeks. Overwhelming with it, Elona stutters quite loudly, not expected to the warmth of someone else.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"So warm..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Once again, she whispers on his ear, to try and stir him up. He shifts around, still in his dreamng state, but no sign of waking up. Elona grabs him by the shoulders.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sir? Sir!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Still no response. She sighs, recalling the last time he was sleeping this soundly. Came running the moment something was up. Her face lights up upon realizing this. She shakes him up with acted distress.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sir! Someone broke in! They're tearing the rest room apart!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Huh, what!!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Instantly, Jody's arm armed with the photon forge rises, ready for initiation and...

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">...right on Elona's cheek. His eyes widen with the clear sensation of her skin gently felt through his palm.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Oh...shit.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">She could see the incoming storm in his eyes in the form of panic, about to set his mind to seek out his suit. Her hand goes on his own, to try and keep him firmly still.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Now sir, I can explain!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"What are you doing here?! You're not supposed to be here! Why is my hand on your cheek?!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Like I said, I can explain--

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"This is a breach of protocol! WHy would you stand me up so badly?!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Let me speak--

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"I didn't want trouble! She told me! She told me no funny business!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sir, I think you're mis--

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Elona, we going straight for the decontamination chamber!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sir, you're greatly--

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"No time for explanation! I have to put you back to a decent state. NO trace of anyone else can be upon you! Especially not your host!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"But sir--

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Right now! Let's go!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sir--

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Let's go! TIme is of the haste--

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"SIR!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody stops, astounished by her yell. She certainly doesn't seem like the kind to scream at someone, let alone yelling.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">So, that's how she sounds when yelling.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sir...it's fine".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her face is ripe with flustered cheeks.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"BUt how? She explicitly said--

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"But it's alright. Like this, it's alright".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her face approaches his, joining her hands behind his neck while her lower end coiled around the top of the bed. Jody himself began turning red as images of her smile returned in force with the one she showers him with.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"It can't be right? She clearly explained it to me".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">A giggle escapes her.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sir, with all due respect, I think you misunderstood what she meant by that".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Really?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Yea...yea you did. She knew you'd like me and vice versa. My mistress just wanted to be sure you'd treat me right. Though you did go overboard with it".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody sighs quietly, feeling his hand reaching behind her waist, causing her to fluster a bit, but with no resistance.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"I thought she wanted me to treat you like a queen".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"You know, I used to do physical tasks for her, yet you were so admant on preventing me from doing anything. WHen she said like a queen, she really meant like a man would treat his woman".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"What?!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Those of us who were interested in different people than her husband are given the same words. As a way to asking them to care for us."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohh. So basically, just..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Care for me, yep! Like you've been doing. But now, I'd like if nothing was between us, you know. Us reptilians need some warmth".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody raises an eyebrow under heavily reddened cheeks, pretty sure of knowing what she means by that.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"But, you had a room specialize for that".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Sir, what if I told you us monsters prefered 'authentic' warmth?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">She sends a grinning smile, her tongue between her teeth, just waiting for his reaction, giggles as his eyes slowly widened as he realized.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohhh..."

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Yea. Be it here orin my ro--well, OUR room, I don't mind as long I have you as my body pillow".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Jody's last inhibitions fell astray, gently pulling her closer with a similar smirk.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"I don't suppose you'd wait a few moment for me to put up something with my resonance?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Not with the source right there, sir. I'd believe it to be a waste of time~.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her laughter sends her jaw reeling, exposing her snake-like fangs under a somewhat curious engineer.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">''Wow, she really is a snake. Look at those teeth. Look at that forked tongue.''

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">A stare like this certainly grabbed her attention, making her stop.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Ohh, you saw that?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Saw what?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Oh you know!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"What? A woman's laughter?"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"If you dare tell anyone, I'll tell my mistress on you!"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Well, good luck doing that with me holding you down"

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">They chuckle a bit, staring each other in the eyes. Jody's eyes inevitably lingers on her lips, which she notices. She shifts a bit, noting his following gaze. A tender smile adorns her face. One of her finger departs from behind his neck to point at them.

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"You know, it's cold here too".

<p style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">She says this with a hint of embarrassement, almost tempted to divert her eyes. But part of her waited in anticipation, as he quickly caught on, slowly approaching her for a kiss...