Behind her, squads of armed guards waited for their moment to go into action. Hovering high over the spine of the Rocky Mountains, her portal showed a... jumble of ridges and valleys with a trace of late-summer snow still clinging to the higher peaks.Centering her position over the orderly rows of buildings that made up the town of Leadville, she followed a road that started out paved, degenerated to gravel and finally was only a dirt track. Off to one side, she made out the rectangle of a. "Angique tipped Kristie's chin up. She gazed into her eyes."It has been a cruel test, please forgive me", she said. And she kissed the girl's half-open lips ever so softly. "I knew your world would not accept the new Kristie I had created. But the new Kristie had to come out. She can't be subdued, can she?"Kristie swallowed."I am so proud of the woman you made me, Mistress. I did not know who I was or where I was heading."Angique chuckled."I have not made you into any woman at all, yet,. Her hazel eyes were sisterly and knowing. "You don't want me to go, do you?" I never said that." Steven, I know you never said it, but..." She looked down and fingered a fallen leaf. "It's just as sudden for me as it must be for you." She looked up at me. "It's not forever." Not forever?" Only for a Master's. Only two years. I'll be teaching and working, so there won't be any crash course this time. It'll take me the full two years to get through it. So... it really won't be that long. Besides. She laughed and said we would have to fix that cuz she could not have twice as much clothes as I had.Next, we moved to the living room where she opened her backpack and took out a laptop and power supply. ReAn asked where she could plug her laptop in and if I had internet that she could use, adding “I will pay half”.I told her she didn’t have to pay anything and to follow me to the office which was really another bedroom I used as my office. There was only the one small desk, but ReAn just sat.