Now that the Shira was safe, the normality of life resumed. I was hungry, in fact, ravenous. I asked for seconds, twice! Shamona was bringing me food ...today, and she commented on the quantity I was eating. As she drew near, I watched as she looked me in the eyes, lowered her head to my level and kissed me. First tenderly, and then with more intensity. I turned on the heat, too. She melted into my arms in a swoon. As this was going on, more of my mates came close. Every one of them was trying to. She had become very bored after two thousand years of looking after an empty city, even though she had to rebuild it, which was designed to take care of a million people.The City was severely damaged when the Lord Wizard before Storm, had battled the Cursed Wizard and somehow trapped him in the medallion before perishing himself. Storm still hadn’t found out how this happened, as Jane had no memories of the event.She said she had spent about a thousand years just getting the city rebuilt. It. He'dbeen discharged back to his room in the residential ward four daysafter his surgery and just yesterday the last of his stitches hadbeen removed. He was still a little stiff and sore down there andthere remained a bit of residual swelling but Dr. Scott had assuredhim that his symptoms would dissipate and vanish over the next weekor two.He'd had several visitors since he'd returned to his apartment too.Glenn had visited him twice and they'd chatted at length. And Pamelachecked in on him every. For the first fifteen minutes we walked in silence, both lost in thought. I noticed Callie rubbing the locket around her neck and knew what she was thinking about.Out of interest, and to distract her from sad thoughts, I asked, “Why Allah’s Tears?”“Mom was Lebanese. She believed in the Islamic faith. She used to tell me that jihadists and extremists were using religion as a cloak, to hide the truth - that they only wanted power. She was horrified by all the innocent people killed. She couldn’t.