The water turned off, and I glanced up as I heard movement, and then gasped slightly and blushed, turning away, as Elena appeared in the doorway. Or ...at least peeked around it, showing only the top portion of her body - completely naked. Her hair was wet, slicked back against her head, and her breast was perfect, standing proudly, the cherry-red nipple hard as she smiled at me. "I'll just be a second, have a seat," she said, then disappeared. "I'm sorry," she yelled from the bathroom. "I. Our plan was to build up the company so we could just sit back and enjoy our self when the time comes. Like I said Life was good".I took the last shot and threw it back and finish off my beer. I looked around for a waitress when Sammie gave me her beer. I just smiled. I knew she wasn't going to drink it. Beer and driving is what took her husband away many years ago."I guess it was about three and haft years ago that things fell apart for us. I don't mean me and Mary I mean the four of us. Of. The window flew open and both girls were yelling at me.One noticed the blood on my arm as I again tripped andfell. She told me to stay where I was or she was goingto call the cops. I didn’t argue. As she approached meI felt like I was about to be shot. She helped me to myfeet and into the house. She told me to sit at thekitchen table and not to move. The other girl stoodbehind me with a baseball bat just waiting for thechance to strike. As the first girl cleaned my woundsand taped my. The war succeeded in thinning the population-tens of billions died, and the face of the world was forever altered. Much of history was lost to the devastation-as was much of the great magic of the war-many spells closely guarded by the elite mages who made and wielded them also died with those mages.Most of civilization collapsed as ever changing landscapes and ever-growing greed, desire, and lust caused the war to include ever smaller and more factions.The war ended in 50 M.E. It was not ended.