A.N. those of you who saw my last update and found only a duplicate of the previous chapter, my apologies. Life has been hectic and for a few days my only way to access the net has been my moms laptop and the neighborhood starbucks. Here's the real chapter 48, and my thanks to guest reviewer Lady Fai for telling me I screwed up.

Reaction

After the initial shock his family were surprisingly ok with the changes he had undergone and the choice he had made to keep the magic. He neglected to tell them about the fact that he isn't fully human anymore though, just that he had had a choice whether or not to keep the changes or stop using magic and let it fade away. He has a feeling his father suspects though, or had had some idea about the magic, just from the lack of reaction to the barrier.

Wild

Going flying and then visiting Riku is becoming a habit, and she doesn't seem to mind. He is glad of her acceptance of his less than human traits. The look she gave him the one time he and Satoshi had been going wild in a storm before visiting though was worrying. He has never visited her after storm diving and lightning dodging again, in worry that a bit too much of his inhumanity for her to be comfortable with shows at those times. He knows that while she may accept that he isn't really human she doesn't truly understand what that means, and so he tries to not make her uncomfortable.