welcome tot he community to the both of you. to tzadkiel, i can understand taking long, i kinda did it too. been reading the stories for years, then just decided to start posting. welcome and hope to hear more. to editor, welcome and it's a wonderful fantasy minus one thing, i'm allergic to cigarette smoke so never took up smoking, would a branding iron do? just kidding, actually glad to see an interesting fantasy brought up in an introduction, definitly something that fires up the conversations.