<span style="color: #00b300">"I'm glad we agree because according to my mother weaning them will be hell." </span>Britomart shook her head with a faint frown.<span style="color: #ff0000"> "that is what i became but when it all started i was a scared, heartbroken seventeen year old girl... i had some basic training that the captain of my father's guard gave me behind my father's back and my axes. i barely survived my first fight and i lost the fifteen or twenty children i had somehow rounded up and tried to protect."</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ff8000">"your not interfering, i am just a little defensive... this will probably take months or even years but everyone thinks i can fix it in a day or two."</span>he shook his head and looked at Jim.<span style="color: #ff8000">"that isn't the worst part... the worst part is that i keep seeing my little girl coming to get me the day before her wedding and i am just gone without a trace. she will search this island and then the whole damned planet and she will never know what happened to me and i won't be there to comfort her. i swore that i would always be there for her and now, because your The'kal had a tantrum i and many others like me never get to see the people they love again."</span>he looked down at Monia and rolled his eyes.<span style="color: #ff8000">"get up Monia. when she is well enough to see people again the last thing she will need is a dose of guilt so i am going to give you two choices. go home and be happy in the knowledge that she is getting help and that you will see her again. or, you can be a pathetic weakling and let her current condition ruin your life and know that i will not let her near you until i decide to fully release her from my care, which could be ten years from now. i will not have your weakness make her feel even worse then she already does."</span>he shook his head and rubbed his temples.<span style="color: #ff8000">"i cannot drink while i maintain this link to Karrie and i spend most of my time up on my balcony with all the fresh air one could ask for. no, it's bets that i just concentrate on my work, it's a good distraction from my own misery." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>