"Okay, enough with the looks, just tell me what's going on," Tai demanded, he was commanding, but not angry.
"Al.. alright, just calm down now Tai…" Izzy said soothingly.
"What calm down, I'm not angry, just tell me what the hell the looks are for?" Tai repeated himself, now he was starting to get annoyed.
"Well, um, see for yourself," Mimi said reaching into her pocket and retrieving a small compact mirror. She crept over to him inch by inch, handed it to him, the darted back next to Matt. Tai just looked at her facial expression, then continued. He flicked open the mirror, and observed the image in the glass. The reflection staring back at him, was doing so via a pair of crimson red eyes. Tai drew back form the mirror, then realised he felt no different. He hadn't gotten angry during the night, nor was he now, he was peaceful. Yet still he had those eyes, Bahamut's eyes.
"You see?" Matt asked.
"Yeah, I see them, I don't know why I see them, but I see," Tai was mumbling.
"I think we should all take a deep breath here," Izzy suggested. They all took a very deep breath, then slowly but surely sat back down. Tai was a little more than worried, he didn't understand why Bahamut was surfacing without the motivation to do so, he couldn't think that if anger hadn't set it off what could have. He wiped his eyes, and felt that the skin on his hands was unusually rough. He looked closely at them and realised that their pigment was definitely starting to get darker, as if it were blacking; it was blackening.
"Oh my god, it's happening guys, I'm changing," he said distraughtly.
"What now, you can't be. Why would you say that?" Sora questioned desperately. Tai merely looked at her worriedly, then stuck out his arms. They all crowded round and looked closely and saw what he had. One by one they backed away slowly, until only Sora was left. Tai raced his view over to Ifrit, who had been quiet during the entire affair, he was there solely as an observer and acted as one.
"You. You know him best, tell me, how long do I have left?!" Tai demanded.
"What do you mean how long do you have left? All I can say is you'd best calm down or not long."
"You've seen him, you're familiar with how he looks, just tell me how far from complete this transformation is!" Tai stood powerfully above them now.
"Tai, calm down, please. He can't possibly say," Sora said comfortingly, urging him to sit. He did so, and as he was Ifrit spoke.
"Two days at this rate, maybe three." Tai was shocked, but took it gracefully.
"Right then, that's the time limit guys, we need a plan, and we need it now."
"I could suggest only one thing, and that is going back to the digital world, it seemed to be slower there," Izzy pointed out.
"I'd have to agree," Ifrit responded.
"Then we'll go, get your things together guys," Tai said calmly, he was in command, but they could all sense his uncertainty, it was like a breathable smell.
"Um Tai, aren't we supposed to be meeting Sora's dad today?" Kari asked from across the room.
"Oh yeah, I can't go now, there's just no way," Tai replied, his plan was falling through, they really did need all the information they could get, especially now, but there was no way he could stay in the human world (Not real world, all three worlds are 'real' if you get what I mean).
"Don't worry, I've got it covered," Davis announced confidently.
"And what are you gonna say, you have to be, uh, diplomatic," Matt said as 'delicately' as he could.
"We'll go with, and watch what he says," T.K. offered.
"Hey, I can be diplomatic, I'll just say you guys had a family emergency or something."
"So we'll meet up with you later," Izzy said looking at T.K.
"Fine, you can tag along, but let's get going," Davis said, a little annoyed at their lack of confidence.
"I guess it's old and new teams then, catch you guys later," T.K. said standing up, along with Kari.
"We'll have to pick a subtle location, we don't need to be bothered, digimon or spectre. I suggest that we meet at the phone booth beach on file island. Not many digimon go there, and it isn't exactly a high profile spot, also, there's an exit right near by, and a cave in he cliff if we need it," Izzy announced analytically.
"You really do have a vast geographical knowledge of that world," Ifrit responded, rather amazed at how much he knew about a world he didn't live in, not knowing that for a short time in the fifth grade they had lived there.
"What can I say, we do this a lot," Izzy replied light heartedly.
"Right, let's get going, come on buddy," Davis announced, heading for the door.
"I guess that's me too then," Ifrit announced following his charge (Davis basically)
"Hey Ifrit," T.K. yelled, "Wait up a second." The spectre stopped, and T.K. disappeared into his room for a second, then returned with a shirt in his hand, he threw it over to Ifrit, "Put that on." Ifrit did so, and although it was a little small, it fit him. Kari joined T.K. and their digimon followed on her lead. The trio then headed after Davis. As soon as the door shut behind them, Tai stood from his seat,
"Come on guys, let's get moving.
Out on the streets the world was normal, nothing had changed in the lives of these people, yet so much had changed for the Chosen children. Ifrit was taking in the sights and sounds of this strange world, there were many things he did not understand, but now was not the time for questions. Their pace to the station quickly, and Davis was trying to keep up the chatter, raising the spirits of the group.
"It's a nice day," he said cheerfully, and he was right, the weather was an immaculate winter's day. Snow was on the ground, and the sun was shining in full. It was not very cold, Davis even had his jacket open. He was rather glad to have a shirt on, compared to the previous day when he had practically frozen without a jacket or shirt in the Carbuncle's hall. The warm blossoming weather contrasted the groups low, dull spirits.
"Yeah, if we weren't in a hurry we could have a snow fight," Veemon replied after waiting, but no one else was. Davis turned to Catherine, she wanted to be happy to, but she only looked over to Kari, then gave Davis the 'not now' look – the message was received. He slowly relieved his grip on Catherine's hand, and paced walked over to Kari, who was next to T.K. and had been just behind them.
"You know he's gonna be okay, right. You know that don't you?" Davis said, he looked into her eyes, they were empty.
"I… I want to know that, I do," Kari stuttered slowly.
"He's going to be alright Kari, we're going to stop this. You know that, I know that, we'll do all we can to stop this. Please, you have to trust and believe me when I say that I am gonna do all I can - even if it kills me - to set this right. We all will. He knows that Kari, and somewhere deep in there, I know you do too."
"I know Davis, I know we will. It's just… he's been through so much, and he just got used to it, he was smiling again, and now… Why, I just want to know why it's happening to him… why," she was now in tears, leaning on T.K.'s chest, her tears soaking into his clothes, the odd one hitting the snow and beginning to melt it.
"He doesn't know Kari, WE don't know. But we're going to find out," T.K. said, trying to reassure her.
"He doesn't deserve this, he does so much, and he gets this, I just want to know what he ever did to deserve this…". T.K. could feel Kari placing more and more weight on him, he led her over to a bench, and the rest of the group followed. Ifrit felt out of place, very out of place. He did not understand fully the feeling that she was going through now, he did not have any relatives. He decided only to try and help if it was getting really dire, he did not want to say something wrong.
"Kari, you can't focus on things like this, there's only one group of people that know exactly why this happened to him, and to find them, we need information on them," Gatomon said trying to get her partner focused on what they did know, and what they could do.
"But what do we do when we find out, he could be… he could be a monster by then."
"Uh uh, Kari, no. You can't say that, Tai will never be a monster, he'll never let it happen," T.K. replied strongly.
"I don't know if he can help it," she responded woefully.
"C… Can I say something," Catherine said nervously. She did not know her place, she wasn't sure if she had a right to comment, but felt she had to do something now, it was getting dire.
"Sure," Davis replied, Kari looked up at her. Catherine slowly walked over to Kari, and knelt down to her level.
"I think that…. I mean I…" Composure was not easy at this point, and she could not phrase it the was she wanted to, diplomatically.
"It's alright, just say what's on your mind," T.K. said politely.
"I…" she decided just to say it, all of it. "Kari, I haven't been here long, I have only just met you guys. I've been here all of four days now, but there's some things I've seen and learnt. You guys, your group, and your digimon are not quitters. I've seen some strange things while I've been with you, and I've been scared, scared out of my mind. But there's one thing that has kept me together, you guys. You never give up, never admit defeat. And when trouble strikes you make a plan. What I'm trying to say is, that you have never let anything beat you, and I know you aren't now. Tai loves you, he loves Sora, he has such good friends, he's not going to leave you, he'll never let anything take you away from him," she was very nervous, but they were all listening.
"Cat…" Davis was astounded by her honesty.
"Hold on, I want to say this all," Davis let her continue, "Then there's you Kari, you too. I don't have a brother, or a sister, I'm an only child. But I know if anything were to happen to someone I love like you do your brother, I couldn't take it. By now I'd be a reckless useless mess. But you haven't Kari, you haven't. You stood by, even though you were quiet, You stood by and helped him, you're helping him now. You haven't let this get to you, you've been brave. Kari, you're far braver than me, you're the bravest girl I know. So please, just believe in him, believe in all of them. And if you'd let me, I want to help to, just have faith in all of us, and we'll win." The group was silenced. Her honesty, her truth had brought them to standstill, as had it done to Kari's tears.
"You, you mean that?" she asked looking into the blonde girls eyes.
"More than anything."
"Well, if you can believe it, so can I," she said wiping her tears.
"Well, come on then, let's go help your brother," Catherine said as she stood, then extended her hand. Kari took hold of it,
"Hey Cat, thankyou," Kari said softly as Catherine helped her up.
"No problem." T.K. proceeded to stand up, he looked into his girlfriend's eyes,
"You gonna be okay?" he asked concernedly.
"I think so," she replied, softly, "Yeah… Yeah, I'll be fine," she continued, still soft but more confidently.
"Okay," T.K. replied. The group started walking again, this time Catherine Ifrit, Davis and Veemon trailed behind. Davis was holding her hand, very much in awe of what she had said,
"You, you were really great back there," he said, sounding grateful for her help.
"I just told the truth, and that just happened to be what she needed to hear."
"Well, I still think that you were great, what you did wasn't easy. And I'm glad you felt comfortable enough to do it."
"Like I'm part of the group almost."
"No, you are part of the group now."
"You really think, I mean I just got here…" she was interrupted by Veemon.
"Of course you're a part of the group! You've been to the digital world, been in some danger, had your boyfriend in mortal danger, been in a planning session, and in a group crisis, and finally, you've helped a group member out of an emotional breakdown. Yup, I think you've seen all this group has to offer," Veemon said oddly cheerfully.
"That makes me a member?"
"Yup, it's the induction process, I went through it too," Davis replied.
"Well, I guess it's settled then, I'm a member," Catherine concluded with a smile.
"So this is normal for all of you, I mean crisis is not uncommon for you?" Ifrit asked, he was just lost for words at how they could talk lightly of situations like that, they had an air, or quality about them that he just did not understand.
"Well, not by choice, I mean, we don't look for trouble. Bu we have a job to do, a world to protect, two actually. We all know what we have to do, and sometimes we have to pay the price. Why do you ask?" Davis responded, he spoke responsibly, and maturely.
"Well, you just seem to deal so well with this. You talk of crisis part of an initiation. I just don't really understand how you can all be so light about it one minute, and deal seriously the next," Ifrit really wasn't trying to be insulting, but taking offence to what he had said would have been easy. However, Davis knew that Ifrit was new to the group, and respected them, so he would not take it the wrong way.
"Well, I guess it's just life. You have to have a good outlook on things, or they'll engulf you in sadness and depression. We all know how serious things can get, and you have to lighten up some of the time. There's one thing that we always have in this group, through all the hardship, when things look hopeless, there's one thing we'll always have, and that's each other. Nothing can ever change that, and we all know it, and fight for it. We were chosen by someone else to do this, to have this weight on our shoulders, we had no choice in it. But we were chosen for a reason, and I can tell you, if I had a choice, I would have done it, I'll always want to. So When I say things like initiation to the group, and things like that, we all know it's just a joke to lighten things up, we'll ever talk down of our duties. Does that help?" Davis was out of breath, and in somewhat lost in answering the very vague question.
"I think so. I think that my team have a lot to learn from you. If we could have had your outlook, your optimism, maybe the fate of our dimension could have been different."
"Maybe, but you know what, I think that now could be your chance. We're with each other now, and I know for sure that it's never too late, never. Maybe there's a bigger reason to all this, huh, maybe this is your chance to change that fate," Davis spoke full of optimism and hope.
"If you'll try, I know I will."
"Well, how about enough of this talk of fate, and destiny, I say we do something about it, and that starts with talking to Mr Takenouchi so we can help Tai, and then we can put an end to this mess," Veemon announced determinedly, holding out his hand.
"I'll be there, I'll do my best to help," Catherine added, placing her hand on Veemon's.
"I'm in it for sure," Davis placed his hand firmly on the two already there.
"It' settled than, we're in this for good!" Ifrit finalised it, placing his large hand on theirs.
"RIGHT!" all four yelled in unison. This took T.K. and Kari by surprise and they swung round.
"What's right?" T.K. asked.
"Oh nothing, we're just going to change the fate of a world again," Davis replied lightly.
"You're going to what?" T.K. asked, confused by the statement.
"No no no no, WE'RE, as in all of us. You see we're going to save Ifrit's dimension."
"Oh, well okay then, if you've decided," T.K. replied.
"Yeah, that sounds fair," Kari added. They turned back to their forward heading, then noticed the stairs in front of them that headed down for the station. They stopped and the team regrouped. They stood in formation, with the digimon in the middle of a makeshift square made out of the humans. They started the decent into the station,
"I hope it's not busy in there," Davis announced, thinking out loud.
"What exactly is down here?" Ifrit asked curiously.
"Well, it's a train, like long worm that walks on two rails, and carries people to where they want to go," Davis explained, he now tied to speak in terms of what Ifrit would know, and not what he would just ask further questions about.
"Huh, what an odd form of transportation." Davis bit his tongue not to comment on the fact that travelling in a flaming meteor was not exactly normal either.
"Kyoto's 12 stations out of Odaiba isn't it?" T.K. asked.
"I think so, do we even have enough money for all these tickets?" Kari replied. All the humans checked their pockets for change. T.K. came up with a few coins and a note, Kari had two notes, and Davis had fistfuls of change. They laid it all out on a nearby table, and Kari calculated the total.
"Let's see, that… twenty three dollars seventy five cents. If it's a concession fee of $5, one way, a ticket, and we have seven at that price, and then one… Hey Ifrit, how old are you?" she asked, breaking form her intense mathematics.
"More than one thousand two hundred years at least, we lost count of our ages decades ago," he replied nostalgically.
"Well, then one adult … we don't have enough, not by a long shot.
"Um, I don't think that the digimon are really eligible for tickets – nor can they buy them, and Ifrit over there can sneak in with a concession ticket, he looks our age."
"So you're gonna smuggle the digimon on the train then?" Kari asked disapprovingly.
"It's not like we have much choice. If we get them on for free, and if we leave for file island from Mr Takenouchi's place, then we have enough for the trip," Davis reasoned. The sound of a train's horn echoed into the station, and the train could be heard approaching.
"We don't have time Kari, we have to. Davis, you two make sure it waits for us, we'll get the tickets."
"Okay."
"Won't we get noticed if you guys run off?" Veemon asked.
"Yeah, but there's just no time," Davis replied, the train was now at the platform. T.K. and Kari scrambled to pick up the change, whilst Davis ran over to the guard at the carriage, it was time for a distraction, but this time there would be not help from Catherine. He ran a little to the left of the guard, then walked right past him, tripping over right in front of the guard.
"Agh, geez, Ow, my ankle," he said, faking a sprain. He grabbed his ankle with his hands, and pulled it close to himself.
"Young man, are you alright?" the guard asked, he leaned over to look closer at Davis. This was the chance the others needed. They quickly ran in the doors to the nearest carriage. Davis saw them enter, but TK and Kari were not in sight, so he needed to stall more.
"I don't know if I can walk…" Davis replied, faking some more groans.
"I'd better tell the driver to wait," The guard replied, he entered his small compartment on the side of the train, and radioed in to the driver. He was only gone for a few seconds, and leaned back down.
"I'll help you up," he extended his hand. Davis took it, then saw T.K. and Kari rushing towards him.
"Davis! Are you all right?" Kari exclaimed, these two were not aware that it had been a diversion, but it was good, the guard would have less chance of finding out.
"I tripped, I think my ankles broken, or sprained."
"Here, I'll help him in," T.K. offered, he took the arm that the guard was holding and placed it around his shoulders, supporting Davis.
"Thank you very much sir," Davis thanked as they the trio entered the carriage. They waited in the foyer for the doors to close, then Davis knew it was safe. He put his foot down on the floor, and removed T.K.'s hand from around him.
"That act never gets old," he chuckled.
"Act?" Kari asked.
"Yeah, they always take the bait. We needed a distraction to get all our digimon in here, and I do love to act."
"You're one manipulating little boy you know that?" T.K. replied jokingly.
"Yup," he said grinning. They headed over to where Catherine and the digimon were seated, then took their own seats next to them.
********Kamiya Residence(Rewind back to just after the other's left)*******
No one was sure what they should really be doing, especially after their last outing. They could need anything from a spare set of clothes, to food supplies, anything. All they really knew is that what ever they were going to do, they were going to do quickly. They were all still seated, waiting for a plan, or just a hint at what they should do. They were all worried about Tai, and knew they should do exactly what he wanted, but the problem was finding out what this was, everyone felt it was out of place to ask.
"We'll use the computer in the study," Tai said, he stood from his seat, but did not take Sora's hand, he was too ashamed of his situation to take it. "You guys can get something to eat before we go if you like, I'm gonna change," Tai said, his voice was unenthusiastic, and soft. He started walking towards his room, Agumon following behind him. Sora looked at the blank faces of the group around her, then stood and followed Tai into his room. He was stationary resting on his bed. He had his head bowed in his hands, with Agumon next to him. He wasn't moving nor talking. As she approached she could here the feint gasps for air, and she could tell he was crying. His tears were coming out, but he was sure to mute himself so that no one would find out. She sat on he bed, and slid over to him,
"Tai?" she said softly, she moved her hand near his shoulder, and gently placed it on him. He flinched back,
"Don't. . . don't even touch me," he wept.
"Come on Tai, don't be like this," she begged.
"You don't get it, I have no right to touch you. I'm more beast than human now, I'm an animal."
"I don't think so, you're just being affected by something."
"No. humans can control themselves, their bodies, I can't."
"Why do you say that?"
"Look at me. I couldn't control it Sora, I couldn't keep him in for you guys. Even with his help, and I still failed. I'm not in control of this body anymore…" Sora extended her arm once more, and placed it on his left wing, he tensed the muscles below it, moving the wing upwards brushing her hand off.
"I told you not to touch me," he growled.
"But if you aren't in control how did you do that? Tai, you're still you, nothing can ever change that. And just because this transformation is still happening doesn't mean you aren't in control of your body. Do you feel any different, you have full control over your mind, you aren't snapping at anyone, nor are you acting irrationally. I think that there's something more to this, something out of your control."
"Why should there be?"
"Because I know you, I know that you'd never give up on yourself, you never let anyone else win, and never will. I don't care what you say, I care about what you know, the same thing I do, that you'll never let evil win. Never. I think that we should get in contact with Ramuh, and we can see what we can do about getting you some help. And there's my dad, we can see what light he can bring to all this."
"But what if I… what if I'm a mindless animal by then."
"Tai, the transformation on your body has continued, but you haven't changed mentally at all, I don't think you have to worry about who's in control for a long while yet."
"Maybe."
"Definitely," Agumon added in. "I'm here to help you Tai, we both are. We all are."
"Yup, he's right. We'll do everything we can to help you. But we need your leadership, we what you bring to the group, to be that group."
"No you don't, you guys do fine without me."
"That's just it, we don't. You're our leader, and we need you. I believe in you, and so does everyone out there, so let's give it all we've got, we'll show these spectres that humans aren't just beings to be used to aid their plans, we'll show them, that we better than any legend, we're real."
"Yeah… YEAH! I'll show them just who they're dealing with!"
"That's better, now let's get going," Agumon said jumping to his feet.
"I'd better change my pants," Tai said, "You won't tell them about this, will you?"
"There's nothing to tell, you were just collecting your thoughts." At that Sora and Agumon headed for the door.
"Hey Sora," she stopped, "I love you." She paused, then turned around to face him,
"I love you too," she replied. Then they left the room.
It was not long before Tai rejoined the others in the lounge. They had prepared themselves, and were now ready to leave.
"Let's go," Tai announced to the room, ready to get engage upon the trip that was going to settle this, they would not leave until it was done. They filed unto the study, and stood before the inactive computer. Tai took a bracing breath, then held out his digivice. The portal appeared, Izzy then did some fiddling on the machine, then looked to Tai and nodded.
"Digi-port open," he ordered, the group were then engulfed by the machine.
They arrived where they had planned to, on the beach at file island. The seven phone booths still lined the shore, and this brought an immense feeling of nostalgia to all members of the group. The beach was of specific importance to Agumon and Tai, it was where Agumon had first evolved to Greymon.
"This is it huh buddy," Tai announced nostalgically.
"Yup, sure is," Agumon replied, in much the same fashion.
"We should get some cover for now," Izzy suggested.
"Yeah, we probably should," Tai replied. The group headed over to the cliff face, and walked along it till the found a cave. They holed up inside, and set up a makeshift camp. There was no need to keep watch, no one was looking for them.
"How do you think it'll be before Ramuh arrives?" Matt asked.
"I'm not sure, I don't think it'll be too long, he did say a day at maximum. I'd say that if he's not here by the time Ifrit and company get here, then we could start thinking about contacting him."
"Right then, what'll we do till then?"
"Wait," Tai responded sombrely.
*******Back with Davis's group*******
The group had arrived at Mr Takenouchi's office block without any major event, and were currently in the elevator on the way up to his floor. Luckily that place had reception, so finding his office was not that much of an issue. The typical elevator music was playing, and the trip was especially slow as it was an old building, and hence it was an old elevator.
"Don't you just love this music," Davis said jokingly. The rest of the group just gave him a disbelieving look. He had to take it further, and started bopping up and down to the music. Soon he was almost dancing.
"Come on," he said quickly, then bopped a few more times, "you know you wanna dance," he continued his display, the elevator soon jogged out of motion, and the door opened. Davis stopped his bopping,
"Oh it's wasted on you people," he said faking disappointment and leaving the elevator, the others followed behind. They reached the office door, and knocked.
"It's open," a voice yelled from inside. Davis took the initiative and opened the door slowly, revealing an unpleasant display. When Mr Takenouchi had said to Tai on the phone that it was a bit of a mess, he was straining the word bit. The place was in tatters, there were books, papers, and even stationary all over the floor. Other than the mess, the place was well lit with 4 windows, all of which were open, and it had a number of book cases, probably the origin of all the books. There was a desk at the rear of the room, with a chair behind it, and Mr Takenouchi. He had only just lifted his head to see who had arrived,
"Davis? Is Tai with you?" he asked curiously.
"No, we're here on his behalf," Davis replied, the group moved further into the room.
"Oh, I suppose that means Sora's not with you wither then?"
"Um, no. She had to stay with Tai," Davis continued.
"Oh, well, as long as she's okay. So tell me then, what brings you all to me," Mr Takenouchi now took a seat at his desk, and was paying full attention to them.
"Well, it's a long story," Davis started.
"Oh, hang on, I see there's two of you here I haven't met yet. I'm terribly sorry, it's a pleasure to meet you," he said standing and extending his hand to Catherine, she took it and they shook.
"I'm Catherine, feel free to call me Cat though."
"And this is…" Mr Takenouchi now had his hand extended to Ifrit, and was prompting for a name.
"Um, uh, Fred," Davis replied, he couldn't say Ifrit, and that was the first name that came to mind. Kari and T.K. both gave him a disbelieving look, Fred was not what they had expected.
"Fred, nice to meet you," Mr Takenouchi continued, shaking his hand.
"As with you," Ifrit replied smiling politely.
"And then of course you have your digimon with you," he said sitting down, "It's good to see your doing so well protecting your partners," he finished. He looked back at Ifrit now, almost nostalgically, and all of the humans began getting nervous, he did of course have horns that were visible through his hair.
"Sorry for staring, you just seem so familiar…" he said slowly.
"Oh, well, I guess I have one of those faces," Ifrit replied. Mr Takenouchi was now looking right at his head,
"No, I think it's more than that…" he continued. He swung round to the floor, and rummaged through the mess, he pulled a book from the mess, then turned back to his desk. The group could just make out the title, 'Myths and legen…' the rest was illegible, but they knew what followed. He flicked through a few pages, then stopped. He opened it fully, and turned it to dace them. There on the page, clearly and plainly, was an almost picture perfect sketch of Ifrit, exactly as he was now, minus the shirt.
Okay guys, that's it for part 20. I never thought I'd get this far, ever, and I can attribute it all to you. You guys gave me the excus… uh motivation to keep going, and to keep it good. So thanks for all the support and kind works, let's hope I have another ten chapters in me! Sorry this wasn't here earlier, I'm trying to get back into my weekend update routine, but it's hard with all my year 12 assessments going on. They'll all be finished by next week Wednesday, so I'll try to have it up for that weekend on Sunday – no guarantees though. Thanks, as always, goes to Phire Phoenix for the proofing job. Hope you all enjoyed it, Bai for now,
~AM
