" Jack took out his cell phone and walked off."Anything else?"Melanie told Anne about Sasha. "I called Sandy at the office. She suggested a 'Conferenc...e Fling'. Hook and I are both single, so that might work."Anne nodded. "I think so, too. Go ahead, let me know how it comes out."Melanie agreed and walked back to the booth. There she got busy giving demos. She'd started at Hubbard as a summer intern working the phones, and her patience with customers had landed her this job. Now she put it to use. Bain for introductions to the Mayor, the State Senator and others. All the while he sprinkled his conversation with French words.One hour later, Mary came out from the library in which she was enthralled by the collection of books and searched for the rest of her family. She saw Mathias leaning on the mantle of the fireplace talking to two women dressed in 17th century costumes. She watched as he laughed with them and saw him take his hand and caress the ear lobe of one of the woman as his. She liked it - of course. Hm-hmm! Enough to do it too." Oh my gosh! They both did it to each other?!" Kathy exclaims softly."Um-hmm. I already wanted to know what it was like, but no guy had, and I didn't want to ask one to, not sure that I wanted to do it to him." You would do that?" Probably have to, if I asked him to. Now I think I probably would - will - but not back then." And what happened?" If she wanted to show me ..., and she did, I wasn't going to say no, even if she expected me then. “I’m a Mortal but also a being of dark attribute...” Zax caught on to the subtext in what Ariel was saying.“And the latter part of your sentence is what I suspect to be the cause of the outburst in attribute fluctuations”. Ariel stated. “You gave your wife the Four Wings Stork’s Pure Core. The fiery attribute she inherited from it is probably why she managed to sustain despite the potency of the dark attribute fluctuations. Both of you have might have lost, but, nevertheless, are still to be.