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I dropped the four knapsacks full of various powders, gun, flash, and smoke grenades. I also pull two grappling hooks out of my back pockets and stuff those in too. "Well, im one of the most wanted people in the Fold now, isnt that great? Infact, im right behind your parents Kahlan. All I had to do that was be an ex-master assassin, kill the region lord, and ransack the local supply points, I even got a few backstabs in on the assassins that have been jerks to me. Now I can leave the city. Infact, we should probably do that....and Jacques, I hope your proud, you made me think about something that I had never thought of before, what was right. Thanks for that." Well that was a bit of a bombshell for them but they could handle it! I hoped....still wasn't sure if kahlan would tie me up and toss me into the city but I was beginning to doubt that. Infact, the two driving points for leaving was the assassination they wanted me to pull on jarlaxle, and the prospect of missing up on the groups adventures being tied down, and forgetting about Kahlan, somehow I knew that would definately not be a good thing.

During a brief moment of numbness, i take the opening provided by Jairn. After she stops, I hold a hand to Jarlaxle. "I am, in too much pain to continue. In fact...." I turn to Jairn. "You by chance steal any thing for the pain? I will take a lot." I just sit crossed legged with my hands in my lap. Kinda, an automatic mechanism for the pain. Wait, how did I know that? I know things because my mind can talk to myself. Holy Cow! I like this whole being able to manage myself thing. Very useful, and I could look at individual processes in my body too! Like right now! I knew the transformation was carrying on! WQoo hoo for my new found power of... Sleep.... Availability... No, how about... Sleep Seeing! Yeah! I tune in Jairn and Kahlan's conversation.

"I knew about Heaven and Hell, but not Earth, that explains further why they put such an intense curse on me. Oh, and your story, that doesn't sound far fetched rather is sounds just like Gabriel. That must have happened centuries after I left home, how old are you again?" This was fascinating, a detail her parents had left out. She waited for his reply, then thanked him.
" I need to go sleep on this, if you don't mind could I have a tent, or sleeping bag?"

I looked over at Jairn and shrugged a bit. " It looks to me like he's meditating. . . The same way as a drow. Its odd. I've never known anyone but a drow to do that." I examined him a bit more and then looked at Jairn again. " How do you two know Kahlan? I feel like I've met her before. It's odd."

I sit there, and then I am somewhere else. It was black, but I was illuminated, along with another person. I stare at him, he wore his white hair long. He had a robe, and a large straw hat.. I look at him, and he raises a hand. "Hel-lo? Where am I?" I instantly check to see if I still knew Kahlan. Yep, I do! He sighs. "I would, really like to know where I am, you know." His long white beard, very long indeed. His head bobs as he nods. "So, telling me..."

"Impatient one, yes. You are only in a special reserved part of your mind. It is where you shall learn of what you are, unworthy." My jaw drops, unworthy?! "You were untrained by a god, unworthy, most of your kind is taught by who ever gives them the cells, but you are different. You are... AN EXPERIMENT! dun dun dun...." I look at him. "I seriously t6hought you would gasp, but obviously not. Sheesh! I can't get any dramatic comedy going on here... Hmph. Anyway. Normally you are supposed to be created by a god, but here you are not, yads yads yads, and now I must teach you the finer points, more yads, and thats why I am here, more yads and yads. Get it?" I nod. "Good! Okay, hmmm, lets see, the humans have come a long way since I remember, genetics is a big step. Foolhardy humans decided to jump headfirst even. Good for them." He goes around inspecting me, I stand there dumbstruck. "Ah, you are most likely wondering what I am, I am... well...." I look at him. No physical differences. "Hehe, I am a very, very, very old akolouthos to Ares, God of war... well... I can't say he is the lone god of war, more like... One of the Gods of War. I serve 'em all though. Mostly Ares, I grew up as a boy in his time, not a human though, I was much like you. Except, I was created by a god, you, weren't. But hey, the elves have tried, with some okay results, I mean, he was branded as mental... But hey, what can you do?"

"Um, question!" He looks at me. "What if, I am, just wanting to.... Not be... what I am?" He frowns. "Thats bad, huh?" He nods. Then, with a gust of air into his lungs, he whistles. A kneeling man appears. Wait this is my mind! How did they get in my mind! The kneeling man looks at me. "Hehe..." I back up. "Um..." The old man sighs.

"You see, you can't be alive if you don't allow yourself to fall under our rules. They are very simple, very very simple. Protect others. Is it that hard to protect others?" I shake my head. If that was the only rule, hell that would be easy! "Well, there is one more..." I grunt. "Ha! Got you!" My mouth pops open. "Now, I must go, Kion, come!" He follows the old man from my mind. Back in my body, well, I keep dealing with the pain.

I get up and start walking off. I had something I wanted to do. I need to get to that hospital and see if I can't, persuade, them to let me see an MRI machine, maybe they would see it my way after I rip a desk or two apart. Hell, I will throw in some hospital beds too. Dang, I was grumpy.

Kahlan heard the guys talking from inside her tent, she was laying there thinking of how they would get along when basically everyone in there group was wanted for one reason or another. She heard the sound of someone walking away and decided it was time to come out of her tent.
"Jacques where are you going" He told her where and she consented to his trip the hospital was surprisingly close to their location.
She walked over to the other men, "What are you two up to this early in the morning?"

I get there, and look at the receptionist. She asks for my name and the reason for my trip. "Um, Mansel Makil.. And I am here to see your MRI machine, I am the guy who needs to get checked out for the cancer." She looks down at her computer and with her long fingernails tips and taps. I roll my eyes. She eyes me. She looks down, and back at me. "Problem, ma'am?"

"You are not in our computers, I am going to have to ask you to wait. I will have a doctor see you in a few moments." She says in a graty voice. "Sir, please sit." I shake my head slowly. "Sir, please sit down." I grab her by the collar. "Security!"

"Don't make this hard. I am in a bad mood, just let me use your MRI machines, I will be done in a few minutes." Her face gets all red, and tears start to form in her eyes. Oh God, this had to get ugly. I set her down. "Please, I don't want to make a scene." I hear her finger tap the silent alarm button. When did they install those in hospitals? Oh dear Lord. "You did it! You made things worse." She scramble from her seat, and I calmly make my way down the hall. "Tech room 1, lab room 3... Ooh! CAT room 5! Not an MRI, but for my purposes it will do." i go in, and interrupt some guy and his doctor. "Excuse me, I will be commendering this room." Before the doctor can say anything, I grab his arm, and spin it He yells. The guy ducks under the computer desk. "Good place for you." I put my head in the CAT scanner and wait.