<span style="color: #cc99ff">"We live in a time of gods and goddess. I don't think standard life times really exist anymore... Jim said he served Order didn't he? You two will probably live very long as long as she owns him, he wouldn't live without you." </span>She smiled and nodded.<span style="color: #cc99ff">"Ophidian dear, can you help your mother get into a position to hold Syrenka? She can coil around her grandmother's arm and rest her head on her bicep."</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000">"I'm... I'm sorry. I wanted to run away. To swim to the bottom of the ocean and never see the light of day again but... I never went past the reefs. The- thinking about never seeing you again- I couldn't breathe but I didn't like the feelings that were in my head. I was trapped. It was a man looking for Ophidian that distracted me enough for Ophidian to see me and talk some sense into me."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>