thanks po ulit. hehe. I'm learning more from you mr. cow than what I learned from my proffesor.... or maybe I was just not listening enough? anyway, the story was originally a part of a group of stories that chronicles the tale of Aniethiel, but I was forced to choose one part and fit in as many elements as possible to make it into one short story. I do not know why I did not make another story to submit instead of trying to compress this one. I'l try to post the rest of the stories that fleshes out some of the characters in this story. I'm hoping that sir cow would still comment on them and I hope it would be better. once more thank you sir cow.