1.1.1.1.1 Vision two : The girl from the Mystic Moon
Millennia opened her eyes as a wild pain in her right arm awakened her. She looked around to see if everyone was okay, but she only saw the strange boy. She tried to get up but she was too dizzy to stay upright. The boy caught her before she fell, a guilty look on her face.
"Are you all right?" he asked.
"No I'm not! I have seen a dragon and … Why is my arm bleeding? Where are they, where…" She didn't finish her sentence as she saw the Earth near the Moon in the sky. "Ô Gods! Where are we?"
"Near Fanélia, we are safe now. My name is…"
"Van Slanzar de Fanel?" asked a strong voice. Moving out of the darkness a human-wolf was talking to him. Millennia felt so dizzy, that new surprise made her lose her balance. She fell down, but arms caught her once more. She just had time before losing consciousness to feel his scent: Wind and fields.
Millennia was lying in someone's arms, but her head felt too dizzy to free herself. She tried to open her eyes and wake up. Van whispered:
"Please don't move, you've just stopped bleeding. Don't worry about a thing, I promise to take care of you."
Van jumped from the creature's back and looked at the crowd. A young girl jumped onto his neck and yelled: "Van-Samaaaa!"
"Merle!"
Millennia blinked as she noticed that the girl was not exactly a human but a cat. What a strange world with human-cats and dragons. It seems so much like the world I believed in when I was a child…Three older men approached Van. He began to smile and escaped Merle's hug.
"Orewa, Van Slanzar de Fanel, have slain an earth dragon and I've come back with the Dragon Energist!"
The group of old men were curious about this red/pink stone. Millennia looked at her pendant which was growing and didn't see the men falling to their knees.
"The three generals of Fanelia recognize you as the king of Fanelia"
1.2 That boy, No Van is a king! Where am I …?
The maid finished cleaning Millennia's wound. She was surprised because only the fresh blood she saw on Millennia's clothes told her that it was recent. Millennia didn't care if it didn't stop hurting if her head stopped spinning. She was once again deep in thought, staring at the Earth in the sky. She sat near the window, depressed.
1.3 "What can I do now, lost in this world without anyone on Earth to worry about me…"
A little bird approached her and sang to make her happier.
"Gomen Nasaï! I didn't mean that no life forms were worried about me. And I always have Hahaue to watch over me." She took the pendant she had been wearing since the day she was born. It was so like the stone Van had shown to the crowd. It was strange. And what happened on Earth? She couldn't remember anything after the dragon appeared, only the light and a deep sadness.
The cat-girl appeared suddenly at the window, head down at first and then she looked up at Millennia, who cried out with surprise. The girl jumped through the window and began to lick her wrist like a cat, staring savagely at Millennia.
"Don't be so familiar with Van-Sama."
"But I'm not… Hey what are you looking for?"
The cat-girl was searching through her room. But Millennia had not brought a lot of things from Earth, except her pager and her old school bag. The clothes she was wearing were fanelian clothes the maid had left them when she had been asleep a few moments and her wound had been healed. She wasn't comfortable in the long dress, so she cut it to the length of her fuko (uniform). Her pendant began to glow and flicker like a candle in the wind.
Merle saw the light and decided that the stone was pretty cool. She snatched it from Millennia's hand and with a satanic smile bounded off.
"Give it back you little …" She didn't finish her words and ran after her, down the palace- corridors.
She stopped as she heard the sound of two swords crossing. She retraced her steps and looked in the dark hall to see what was happening.
An old man (one of the three generals…) was looking calmly at the boy who appeared with the dragon (Van…, she could remember his name now). He was taking up a position to attack the older man. She stopped breathing as he decided to act, jumping on the man with all his strength. The man defended himself successfully.
"You are too impulsive Van-Sama"
"Vargass, you know I hate violence and killing." He stared at an undefined point on the floor. Sadness was taking over him and Millennia could sense his unease. It was not the dragon's sadness I felt before…
"Don't show your weakness to your enemy, You are the king now Van-sama."
"Must kings wage war to be respected? Can't we just live in peace?"
"Hum, I think that someone is coming to see you."
Vargass had noticed Millennia's presence, watching the two of them.
"What are you looking at, Young Lady…"
"Not Young Lady, just Millennia, Albatou no Tsubasa Millennia. I felt the wind and thought he had wanted me to come here…but…"
"Nehe, I thought that she was unable to act in a court," mumbled Merle.
"Ah you! Just give me the stone back!"
But Merle didn't wait for Millennia's demand before throwing the pendant back to her and flinging her arms around Van's neck.
"Van-Saamaaa!"
Vargass approached the girl and calmly spoke:
"Van-Sama told me that you are from the Mystic Moon. He decided to bring you under his protection until he found a way to send you back there. I'll call a bodyguard for you."
"I don't need a bodyguard! I can take care of myself!" she said curtly. She went to the wall and took and a child's sword. "I used to train with a sword a long time ago…"
Vargass took the advantage while she was reminiscing about her past and attacked her, pushing her down. She sprang back up, a light beaming out from her forehead and wind whistling around her, protecting her and tearing into everything that tried to reach her.
"Vargass!" yelled Van, catching her as the light disappeared and as she fell down. He noticed that Vargass was bleeding on his arm. Millennia woke up and blinked.
"Van, what happened? Vargass-San, you're bleeding!"
She reached over to him and placed her hand over the wound, closing her eyes and whispering: "Hoimi"
The wound disappeared, but only Vargass saw this. Van led the girl out of the hall before he could ask her any questions.
Millennia was lying under the branch of the tree, protecting herself from Fanelia's sun and warmth, listening to sounds of nature. A whole day had passed since that incident with Vargass. Van took care of her, but he didn't speak a lot, like her after the accident ten years ago. She tried to change for the others, but with him, she was always just herself, not playing a part that was not her. But after the Vargass incident, she decided to leave Fanelia. She had taken her Fukos and school bag with the dress Van had given her the first day and left. But she wanted to thank him and say good bye to him. She wanted to see his angel face once more.
"Ah… Why do you believe in everything you see?" she said to herself. "It's just a dream, you'll awake soon Millennia!"
"If it's a dream how do you explain your wound?"
"Who's…" but the wind answered her question before she finished asking. She saw the old man, Vargass coming towards her.
"Vargass-San", she replied jumping to her feet just in front of him. "How is your wound doing?"
"Good, I can't even see where the wind had cut me, can you?"
"The wind? I thought it was a sword…"
That girl, thought Vargass, She doesn't remember anything but she does have magic powers… Is she who my master was looking for?
"Vargass-san?"
"Gomen, I was just wondering , you used a spell to heal my wound, didn't you?"
"Euh… Yes I did, but I didn't need to use much. I'm the only one on Earth to have such powers." She whispered.
"You mean the only one on Mystic Moon. No one here has such powers; We just have sorcerers, but I hope, you'll never meet one of them. Do you know any other spell?"
"No I don't, sometimes I feel the wind protecting me, but I do nothing to initiate this. As I said, there are no other magicians on Earth, it's dangerous, when you are different, to show what you can do. People are frightened by what they can't understand. So I kept to myself and tried to live a normal life. I never found a master to teach me magic…"
"I think you'll find more spells in this book."
Vargass gave Millennia an old book, covered with dust. She felt herself go tense as she took the book, feeling a movement of wind. She blew down on the book and the dust began to fly around them. She turned the book inside out and finally opened it.
1.4 That's her! the person Aban was looking for. What a shame that I haven't found her earlier…
"To the people who can hear the Elements, don't be afraid because you have a unique gift. Here are some basic spells and the way to invoke them. It will give you the power of gods, but always remember where you come from, who you are, why you have learn magic and what happened to those who believed they were gods. If you remember this advice then everything will be all right.
1.4.1.1 Aban"
Millennia finished reading the preface and looked at Vargass very surprised.
"Why are you giving it to me? Have you mastered all the spells or…"
"I was not able to open the book. Only draconians and magicians can do so. I have never seen anyone who had open the book use the spells."
"How did you know it was a spell?"
"Aban told me. I want you to keep and use this book. You have a kind heart and you care. I can see this, through the sadness in your eyes."
"Who said I care and I'm sad?"
" You wanted to leave." She blushed. "but you were waiting to say good bye to Van-sama. Don't go yet! Wait for the coronation. I think that he has something to tell you too."
Vargass walked away, leaving Millennia to her thoughts and returned to his.
If I have read the situation correctly, Fanelia will have a new king and queen before the next moon, and my work will be finished.
"Van Slanzar de Fanel, receive the symbols that make you King of Fanelia."
That's done. Van was finally crowned King of Fanelia after ten years of waiting. His subjects were happy but they didn't see the loneliness in Van's eyes. Millennia could feel his sadness. He was so attractive as a normal person. Why did he have to be a King…thought Millennia. Their eyes met, Van smiled at her and she smiled back. It was warm sincere smile, not a forced one for the court, but one just between friends. He walked toward her and said, blushing and nervous:
"People of Fanelia, I'll no longer be alone, because destiny brings someone special to my …"
Before he could finish, an explosion along one of the city wall interrupted him. A horseman arrived, yelling: "We are under attack!!"
"Generals take your guymelefs!" shouted Vargass.
"What should I do Vargass?" asked Van.
"Go to the shrine with the young lady and awake Escaflowne."
"Escaflowne…" whispered Van before he caught Millennia's hand and hurried off to the shrine with her.
"Mate Van! What are you doing?" she asked blushing as he took his armour off, revealing his red shirt.
"I'm going to call Escaflowne."
"Are you a magician too or a draconian?" she asked.
"How could you? There is no time for this right now."
He jumped on the platform and cut his left thumb. The blood flowed freely and he bled onto the strange stone he had taken from the dragon on Earth. Millennia's pendant began to glow when a pillar of light engulfed Van. The stone between them began to crack open and a giant robot appeared behind them and fell down onto the ground on one knee behind Van. Van smiled.
"Exactly like the legend said it would be."
He jumped onto the guymelef and entered into it.
"Millennia please, I've got to go and fight them. Go to a safe place."
The door exploded but they saw nothing enter the shrine.
"Damn they are invisible…"
"Van on your left!" yelled Millennia feeling the change in the air. He fended off the first attack, but saw the metal hand that caught Millennia. "Van!!" He defended himself against a second attack as Millennia warned him. The guymelef became invisible taking Millennia with him.
"Millennia!!"
She tried to escape the grasp, but she could not do this and a warn Van. She didn't want anything to happen to him. Not because of her like seven years ago. She did not care about herself and continued to hear the wind and with her mind eyes began to feel where the guymelef were. She yelled to him their position and he destroyed two of them. The guymelef carrying Millennia came back to being visible.
"Don't move or she'll die!"
"Millennia!!"
Their hands were strangling Millennia, she was losing consciousness. She could hear in the distance the fear in Van's voice. Did he care for me? She didn't want to make him sad or for him to die. She closed her eyes and her forehead began to get very warm. A light shone from her forehead and the metal hand exploded with the guymelef. She was floating in the air, wrapped up by a pale blue light and a wind barrier.
"Who was going to die" she replied with a cold voice. Van could see her violet eyes and the fire dancing in them. A guymelef attacked her, she extended her hand and whispered "Bagi". The guymelef was instantly repelled. Then she whispered "Mera" and fire shot out of her hand burning the guymelef and making him visible. But they didn't stop attacking.
"Van-sama!!" yelled Vargass, saving him from a third guymelef who was attacking him.
"Vargass!"
"Get the Young Lady out of here. It's dangerous for you two to fight in here."
The light on Millennia's forehead dimmed and she fell into Escaflowne's hand, semi-conscious.
"Van…?"
"I'm here Millennia."
He steered her out of the shrine and saw that the city was on fire and all his people were running away. He stood voiceless, his eyes widened.
"Van-Sama! Protect her and look after yourself, for your people!"
The claw stabbed Vargass and his bloody body fell to the ground.
"Vargass!" yelled Van.
"Vargass-san" gasped Millennia. "Why…"
Escaflowne fell to his knees. Guymelefs were all around them. But Van didn't even notice them.
"Catch them!"
"Why…?" repeated Millennia, "Why all this violence? WHY?" she yelled.
The symbol appeared on her forehead, her eyes went violet. Her expression was stern but her blood was flowing out of here body through the wound in her arm. She just shouted as the claw were going to catch them: "RURA!"
Her pendant glowed with Escaflowne's heart and the symbol on her forehead. And before they had time to realise it, a column of light whisked them out of Fanelia.
On the hill behind Fanelia, the cat-girl stared at the pillar taking the guymelef out of the city in fire and yelled: "Vaaaaaaannnnnnn- ssssssaaaaaaaaammmmmmmaaaaaaa!"
Millennia opened her eyes as a wild pain in her right arm awakened her. She looked around to see if everyone was okay, but she only saw the strange boy. She tried to get up but she was too dizzy to stay upright. The boy caught her before she fell, a guilty look on her face.
"Are you all right?" he asked.
"No I'm not! I have seen a dragon and … Why is my arm bleeding? Where are they, where…" She didn't finish her sentence as she saw the Earth near the Moon in the sky. "Ô Gods! Where are we?"
"Near Fanélia, we are safe now. My name is…"
"Van Slanzar de Fanel?" asked a strong voice. Moving out of the darkness a human-wolf was talking to him. Millennia felt so dizzy, that new surprise made her lose her balance. She fell down, but arms caught her once more. She just had time before losing consciousness to feel his scent: Wind and fields.
Millennia was lying in someone's arms, but her head felt too dizzy to free herself. She tried to open her eyes and wake up. Van whispered:
"Please don't move, you've just stopped bleeding. Don't worry about a thing, I promise to take care of you."
Van jumped from the creature's back and looked at the crowd. A young girl jumped onto his neck and yelled: "Van-Samaaaa!"
"Merle!"
Millennia blinked as she noticed that the girl was not exactly a human but a cat. What a strange world with human-cats and dragons. It seems so much like the world I believed in when I was a child…Three older men approached Van. He began to smile and escaped Merle's hug.
"Orewa, Van Slanzar de Fanel, have slain an earth dragon and I've come back with the Dragon Energist!"
The group of old men were curious about this red/pink stone. Millennia looked at her pendant which was growing and didn't see the men falling to their knees.
"The three generals of Fanelia recognize you as the king of Fanelia"
1.2 That boy, No Van is a king! Where am I …?
The maid finished cleaning Millennia's wound. She was surprised because only the fresh blood she saw on Millennia's clothes told her that it was recent. Millennia didn't care if it didn't stop hurting if her head stopped spinning. She was once again deep in thought, staring at the Earth in the sky. She sat near the window, depressed.
1.3 "What can I do now, lost in this world without anyone on Earth to worry about me…"
A little bird approached her and sang to make her happier.
"Gomen Nasaï! I didn't mean that no life forms were worried about me. And I always have Hahaue to watch over me." She took the pendant she had been wearing since the day she was born. It was so like the stone Van had shown to the crowd. It was strange. And what happened on Earth? She couldn't remember anything after the dragon appeared, only the light and a deep sadness.
The cat-girl appeared suddenly at the window, head down at first and then she looked up at Millennia, who cried out with surprise. The girl jumped through the window and began to lick her wrist like a cat, staring savagely at Millennia.
"Don't be so familiar with Van-Sama."
"But I'm not… Hey what are you looking for?"
The cat-girl was searching through her room. But Millennia had not brought a lot of things from Earth, except her pager and her old school bag. The clothes she was wearing were fanelian clothes the maid had left them when she had been asleep a few moments and her wound had been healed. She wasn't comfortable in the long dress, so she cut it to the length of her fuko (uniform). Her pendant began to glow and flicker like a candle in the wind.
Merle saw the light and decided that the stone was pretty cool. She snatched it from Millennia's hand and with a satanic smile bounded off.
"Give it back you little …" She didn't finish her words and ran after her, down the palace- corridors.
She stopped as she heard the sound of two swords crossing. She retraced her steps and looked in the dark hall to see what was happening.
An old man (one of the three generals…) was looking calmly at the boy who appeared with the dragon (Van…, she could remember his name now). He was taking up a position to attack the older man. She stopped breathing as he decided to act, jumping on the man with all his strength. The man defended himself successfully.
"You are too impulsive Van-Sama"
"Vargass, you know I hate violence and killing." He stared at an undefined point on the floor. Sadness was taking over him and Millennia could sense his unease. It was not the dragon's sadness I felt before…
"Don't show your weakness to your enemy, You are the king now Van-sama."
"Must kings wage war to be respected? Can't we just live in peace?"
"Hum, I think that someone is coming to see you."
Vargass had noticed Millennia's presence, watching the two of them.
"What are you looking at, Young Lady…"
"Not Young Lady, just Millennia, Albatou no Tsubasa Millennia. I felt the wind and thought he had wanted me to come here…but…"
"Nehe, I thought that she was unable to act in a court," mumbled Merle.
"Ah you! Just give me the stone back!"
But Merle didn't wait for Millennia's demand before throwing the pendant back to her and flinging her arms around Van's neck.
"Van-Saamaaa!"
Vargass approached the girl and calmly spoke:
"Van-Sama told me that you are from the Mystic Moon. He decided to bring you under his protection until he found a way to send you back there. I'll call a bodyguard for you."
"I don't need a bodyguard! I can take care of myself!" she said curtly. She went to the wall and took and a child's sword. "I used to train with a sword a long time ago…"
Vargass took the advantage while she was reminiscing about her past and attacked her, pushing her down. She sprang back up, a light beaming out from her forehead and wind whistling around her, protecting her and tearing into everything that tried to reach her.
"Vargass!" yelled Van, catching her as the light disappeared and as she fell down. He noticed that Vargass was bleeding on his arm. Millennia woke up and blinked.
"Van, what happened? Vargass-San, you're bleeding!"
She reached over to him and placed her hand over the wound, closing her eyes and whispering: "Hoimi"
The wound disappeared, but only Vargass saw this. Van led the girl out of the hall before he could ask her any questions.
Millennia was lying under the branch of the tree, protecting herself from Fanelia's sun and warmth, listening to sounds of nature. A whole day had passed since that incident with Vargass. Van took care of her, but he didn't speak a lot, like her after the accident ten years ago. She tried to change for the others, but with him, she was always just herself, not playing a part that was not her. But after the Vargass incident, she decided to leave Fanelia. She had taken her Fukos and school bag with the dress Van had given her the first day and left. But she wanted to thank him and say good bye to him. She wanted to see his angel face once more.
"Ah… Why do you believe in everything you see?" she said to herself. "It's just a dream, you'll awake soon Millennia!"
"If it's a dream how do you explain your wound?"
"Who's…" but the wind answered her question before she finished asking. She saw the old man, Vargass coming towards her.
"Vargass-San", she replied jumping to her feet just in front of him. "How is your wound doing?"
"Good, I can't even see where the wind had cut me, can you?"
"The wind? I thought it was a sword…"
That girl, thought Vargass, She doesn't remember anything but she does have magic powers… Is she who my master was looking for?
"Vargass-san?"
"Gomen, I was just wondering , you used a spell to heal my wound, didn't you?"
"Euh… Yes I did, but I didn't need to use much. I'm the only one on Earth to have such powers." She whispered.
"You mean the only one on Mystic Moon. No one here has such powers; We just have sorcerers, but I hope, you'll never meet one of them. Do you know any other spell?"
"No I don't, sometimes I feel the wind protecting me, but I do nothing to initiate this. As I said, there are no other magicians on Earth, it's dangerous, when you are different, to show what you can do. People are frightened by what they can't understand. So I kept to myself and tried to live a normal life. I never found a master to teach me magic…"
"I think you'll find more spells in this book."
Vargass gave Millennia an old book, covered with dust. She felt herself go tense as she took the book, feeling a movement of wind. She blew down on the book and the dust began to fly around them. She turned the book inside out and finally opened it.
1.4 That's her! the person Aban was looking for. What a shame that I haven't found her earlier…
"To the people who can hear the Elements, don't be afraid because you have a unique gift. Here are some basic spells and the way to invoke them. It will give you the power of gods, but always remember where you come from, who you are, why you have learn magic and what happened to those who believed they were gods. If you remember this advice then everything will be all right.
1.4.1.1 Aban"
Millennia finished reading the preface and looked at Vargass very surprised.
"Why are you giving it to me? Have you mastered all the spells or…"
"I was not able to open the book. Only draconians and magicians can do so. I have never seen anyone who had open the book use the spells."
"How did you know it was a spell?"
"Aban told me. I want you to keep and use this book. You have a kind heart and you care. I can see this, through the sadness in your eyes."
"Who said I care and I'm sad?"
" You wanted to leave." She blushed. "but you were waiting to say good bye to Van-sama. Don't go yet! Wait for the coronation. I think that he has something to tell you too."
Vargass walked away, leaving Millennia to her thoughts and returned to his.
If I have read the situation correctly, Fanelia will have a new king and queen before the next moon, and my work will be finished.
"Van Slanzar de Fanel, receive the symbols that make you King of Fanelia."
That's done. Van was finally crowned King of Fanelia after ten years of waiting. His subjects were happy but they didn't see the loneliness in Van's eyes. Millennia could feel his sadness. He was so attractive as a normal person. Why did he have to be a King…thought Millennia. Their eyes met, Van smiled at her and she smiled back. It was warm sincere smile, not a forced one for the court, but one just between friends. He walked toward her and said, blushing and nervous:
"People of Fanelia, I'll no longer be alone, because destiny brings someone special to my …"
Before he could finish, an explosion along one of the city wall interrupted him. A horseman arrived, yelling: "We are under attack!!"
"Generals take your guymelefs!" shouted Vargass.
"What should I do Vargass?" asked Van.
"Go to the shrine with the young lady and awake Escaflowne."
"Escaflowne…" whispered Van before he caught Millennia's hand and hurried off to the shrine with her.
"Mate Van! What are you doing?" she asked blushing as he took his armour off, revealing his red shirt.
"I'm going to call Escaflowne."
"Are you a magician too or a draconian?" she asked.
"How could you? There is no time for this right now."
He jumped on the platform and cut his left thumb. The blood flowed freely and he bled onto the strange stone he had taken from the dragon on Earth. Millennia's pendant began to glow when a pillar of light engulfed Van. The stone between them began to crack open and a giant robot appeared behind them and fell down onto the ground on one knee behind Van. Van smiled.
"Exactly like the legend said it would be."
He jumped onto the guymelef and entered into it.
"Millennia please, I've got to go and fight them. Go to a safe place."
The door exploded but they saw nothing enter the shrine.
"Damn they are invisible…"
"Van on your left!" yelled Millennia feeling the change in the air. He fended off the first attack, but saw the metal hand that caught Millennia. "Van!!" He defended himself against a second attack as Millennia warned him. The guymelef became invisible taking Millennia with him.
"Millennia!!"
She tried to escape the grasp, but she could not do this and a warn Van. She didn't want anything to happen to him. Not because of her like seven years ago. She did not care about herself and continued to hear the wind and with her mind eyes began to feel where the guymelef were. She yelled to him their position and he destroyed two of them. The guymelef carrying Millennia came back to being visible.
"Don't move or she'll die!"
"Millennia!!"
Their hands were strangling Millennia, she was losing consciousness. She could hear in the distance the fear in Van's voice. Did he care for me? She didn't want to make him sad or for him to die. She closed her eyes and her forehead began to get very warm. A light shone from her forehead and the metal hand exploded with the guymelef. She was floating in the air, wrapped up by a pale blue light and a wind barrier.
"Who was going to die" she replied with a cold voice. Van could see her violet eyes and the fire dancing in them. A guymelef attacked her, she extended her hand and whispered "Bagi". The guymelef was instantly repelled. Then she whispered "Mera" and fire shot out of her hand burning the guymelef and making him visible. But they didn't stop attacking.
"Van-sama!!" yelled Vargass, saving him from a third guymelef who was attacking him.
"Vargass!"
"Get the Young Lady out of here. It's dangerous for you two to fight in here."
The light on Millennia's forehead dimmed and she fell into Escaflowne's hand, semi-conscious.
"Van…?"
"I'm here Millennia."
He steered her out of the shrine and saw that the city was on fire and all his people were running away. He stood voiceless, his eyes widened.
"Van-Sama! Protect her and look after yourself, for your people!"
The claw stabbed Vargass and his bloody body fell to the ground.
"Vargass!" yelled Van.
"Vargass-san" gasped Millennia. "Why…"
Escaflowne fell to his knees. Guymelefs were all around them. But Van didn't even notice them.
"Catch them!"
"Why…?" repeated Millennia, "Why all this violence? WHY?" she yelled.
The symbol appeared on her forehead, her eyes went violet. Her expression was stern but her blood was flowing out of here body through the wound in her arm. She just shouted as the claw were going to catch them: "RURA!"
Her pendant glowed with Escaflowne's heart and the symbol on her forehead. And before they had time to realise it, a column of light whisked them out of Fanelia.
On the hill behind Fanelia, the cat-girl stared at the pillar taking the guymelef out of the city in fire and yelled: "Vaaaaaaannnnnnn- ssssssaaaaaaaaammmmmmmaaaaaaa!"