The footsteps went past them and they could make out themarguing about not seeing anyone except for Dennis' dead body, then therewas something about r...ecovering it. After a hour or so of waiting, theyheard a lone set of footprints. A person was whispering quietly, "Buffy,Faith, where the hell are you two?" They both recognized it as S' voice. They slipped out of the vent and crept towards his voice."S? Please tell me its you," Faith whispered.S emerged from the shadows, "Thank God you two. Regardless, time was what it would take to know, one way or the other.I put my left arm down to the bed to steady myself as I prepared to try standing up when Anna entered the room carrying a tray. She stopped, surprised to see me up, I thought. The relief in her eyes that I was awake was clear enough for a blind man to see. That relief stopped far short of her voice though.“What do you think you’re doing?” she asked, more an exclamation than a question.“Ummm, I think I was trying to get out of. ’ But I get no response. The door clanks shut and echoes. Hunh? I sit in my seat and am quickly belted in. Before I can utter another word we are on the move. ‘Okay guys, seriously, if you think for one minute I’m riding another inch under this fowl hood…’ I start to remove the hood from my head. ‘Leave the hood where it is,’ a deep voice warns me. A deep voice that does not belong to anyone that I know. In a flood of reality, the hairs raise on my arms, alerting me to what I pretty much figure. It was a receipt from the Mage Guild for services rendered, in this case for teaching a particular spell to Kenris V'haas, the brother of the former Oceanus Emperor and the man that Jollis had killed in such a distasteful way.Jollis paused. The spell that had been taught was Shadow Hide, used to temporarily cloak an object or an image from view. It was not a very strong cloaking spell, good only for those things that were already in shadow or were not wholly substantial. This was supposed to.