At 3:00, I discovered her waiting for me outside my Physics class; apparently, she had faked a bathroom emergency to get out of Economics early. Her e...xcitement grew geometrically since then: her cheeks were brightly flushed and she only paused for a breath after every third sentence. "Oh!" She jerked her hand from mine to point at a precisely drawn line on her diagram. "And also, oscillator one can be used as a modulator for oscillator two." After pausing for a moment (for the first time all. It left a Southerner, like me, with the feeling of leaning forward mentally, waiting for the rest of the sentence. I simply nodded and turned back to the entryway to the alley and access to the street … and safety–I hoped. Moving my feet on autopilot at that point, I walked on toward the bar that had been my original destination with this man still gently holding my elbow. When he saw that I was turning in toward the doorway of a bar, he hesitated for a moment, and then continued inside with. Real love. It was the kind of love she experienced with her own adult son a very long time ago. She misses that feeling and she's longing for it." Are you saying the entity was aroused or something? I've never heard of anything like that before, ever." I don't know. But the psychic says that the entity will depart from this realm once it finally gets to experience that feeling one last time. It's been waiting for something like this." This is just plain weird," I replied. "I mean, this is. As a matter of fact, the peers HAVE announced their program: the abolition of the Council of Magnates and all distinctions between Magnate and peer, the execution of all who fail to swear fealty to the Empress, the confiscation of all estates belonging to dead or captured Magnates and peers for division among the remaining nobles, the execution of all Dekerins who seduce or attempt to seduce Akrosians, the confiscation of all estates and assets of people who resist the Occupation or aid said.