<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You'll always find someone at night on the MKGuild IRC channel!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mkguild-bounces@lists.integral.org [mailto:mkguild-bounces@lists.integral.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jack Moore<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 15, 2015 9:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> mkguild@lists.integral.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Mkguild] A Day In The Life I<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id=yiv2813334954><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434418296065_3517"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434418296065_3516"><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>AN: I am horribly depressed but I'm trying to send this out. I'd love to speak to anyone out there.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>A Day in the Life<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>"I hate this place." The male said. I heard him and could see him from my place in the crowd.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> A falconry glove? I frowned. Why would a lizard need that? Scales on his face said he'd be a lizard and his common gold eyes proved it. Mine were a vibrant blue. That's the advantage of being a Sailfin Lizard; you have beautiful sapphire eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> My name is Janelle. I am a corporal in the Metamor Keep Watch, one with unique gifts and decent observation skills. And this was the first time I saw James, when he was James.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> But that's not the story I want to tell. Instead let's talk about the second time and the day it happened. This story is a single day in my life, one I hope you will find entertaining my dear listener.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> I ask before we proceed to pass no judgement. Our lives in Metamor Keep are hard enough even without the judgement of others. Just remember, everyone I tell you about is real. Their lives, their hopes and their fears are real, but I only get to see brief glimpses of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> We must remain unbiased when we approach an event. That is the nature of justice and of the Watch.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>***<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> This place again.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> I stood up. It was dark. I could see.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> The edges of the walls glowed a dull white. There seemed to be nothing above me, just an eternal void. Looking up at it, I felt my feet begin to lift up. "No! No! NO! I'm not floating! I'm on the ground!" I closed my eyes. "This is the ground and I am not floating." I opened my eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> Still on the ground. I let out a sigh of relief. "This is where I'm in control. I have control here."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "Do you?" A chill ran through me. I forced myself to walk down the hall. The air stuck to my scales and pulled each one upward. It stuck in my nose, my lungs burned when trying to breathe.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "Is anyone here?" The words fell to the ground like stones in water. The air thickened, but I pushed myself forward. The walls were formless, endless. Where did the floor meet them?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> I could feel the floor under my feet but my tail wasn't dragging on anything. My tail is the size of a log. Why isn't it dragging? I looked up again. The eternity had grown a little closer<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> The air needed to be forced apart now by my body. But I could see something. A dull glow that was gaining brightness; a light in the distance. Every time I had this dream the light appeared now. "I need to get to that. Got to get there."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> My mind returned to my early days in the Watch when I was still on my feet after twelve hours. Little water, lots of running and burning muscles. But the end was in sight then.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> The only thing in sight for me was the light. It winked in and out, the air wanted to choke it. My muscles screamed for me to start. I never got to where I was by being sensible.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "Stop Janelle." I froze. "You can't undo this if you make it."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "What are you talking about?"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "Turn around Janelle. Go home." The voice came from where I stood. Not under me but almost echoing from the same space.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "I have to move." I growled. "I've got to reach the light."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "Do you know what you're doing? You have to stop." I started walking again. Like I was up to my waste in water with rocks around my ankles. I stopped again, coughing out thick air.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "This isn't right. This isn't-<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "No it's not." The voice returned. "Go home." I looked around. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "That's not it either. The problem is what is holding me?" It yanked on my scales, each one individually. "It's the air...but not the air? Something...it can't..." I could see it now.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> Hands, hands made out of air and darkness were gripping me. Thousands of inhuman hands trying to hold me in place. I screamed; it didn't pierce the wall.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "You can't escape us all Janelle."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "You couldn't save us." Another voice.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "You can save yourself."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "Let go of me!" I took off into a run. Now they pulled harder on me but my blood rushed through me. I felt them pulling on my scales, my fin, my nostrils and my jaw. I swung my arms in a futile attempt to pull free.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "Stop yourself Janelle!" The three became one, joined by thousands of others in a damned chorus. "Turn around."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "I can't!" The pain was overwhelming. I pushed foreword. "I have to know what's in there. What is past the light." They gripped harder but it didn't matter. I was going foreword.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> Left. Thud. Right. Thud. I couldn't breathe. Could barely see. I kept going anyway though.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "We will stop you." The dammed chorus shouted. "We will turn you back."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "No you...won't." I grit my teeth and pushed. "I have to save them!"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "Why Janelle?" I fell into a pant. "You couldn't save us. You can't save everyone." They were right. I knew it of course.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "But that doesn't mean I can't try." I said. "I can fix everything. I can change this! I swear to Eli I can change this." Change what? What am I doing here?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> The hands fell away. The voices went silent. And again I was alone. I crossed my arms around me, trying to hold on to any heat I still had.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "I don't want to be here." I looked foreword. The light glared at me, begging me to move. "I...have to do this." the light shone brighter. "I have to." I took off running into it.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "I have too." It consumed me. "I have to save-<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>****<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> -I...I..." I pulled myself up onto my knees. "I'm...alive." I lay on my bed, as I always do, on my side. It's the only way to sleep with a massive sail fin tail. My only bed sheet was kicked off as always.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> The room was silent except for the sounds of gentle snoring. My son Kaysar, never disturbed by the nightmares of his mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> "Same nightmare." I swallowed. "Why don't I remember?" I whispered to myself, mindful of the other sleeper. "Why don't I remember?"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> The stone floor is always cold but when you are a reptile it hits you like an arrow. I brushed it off. The tiny window (the only one in my dwelling) showed the sun beginning to rise. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Time to get ready.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv2813334954yui_3_16_0_1_1434416569846_9101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>