a guest asked why Mac can't copy the powers he gives away back from them?

his gift can only copy a gift In it's purest form. it's like taking a picture of a picture. every time you do it gets a little more grainy. the gift would not work right or not at all. hope that answers your Q.

as always SM is all knowing we just look at the time she did not tell us about.

please RR looking forward to hearing from you.

Chapter 15

We get back to our suet Lillian stares at herself in the full length polished brass.

"It's so freaky my eyes." Her voice trails off. Looking at our memories she knows they will be like that for a year.

Kat gives her a pull on the arm dragging her away. "You can stare at yourself later let's get you somethings to ware." She had destroyed the dress that she was wearing on the hunt.

"Don't abuse Aro's hospitality Kat. Remember we have to get it back to Rome where your box is."

The time seemed to pass again, fights broke out, and tempers flared. The sticking point seemed to be letting Aro's coven, laterally making judgments without any recourse. They wanted someone to watch the watcher. Someone they could appeal to if Aro was getting power hungry. They all thought that it should be them. Zeus claimed to have managed more immortals for the longest time so he felt he had the most experience for the job. Torrin pointed out that his coven had the oldest immortals thus having wisdom on their side. Zhou pointed out that he could inforce a penalty on an offender. Aro insisted that there was no need to have any oversight. I just sat there and kept my mouth shut. Ten years and we couldn't even agree who would inforce the rules.

"How'd it go today Mac?" Lillian was painting a still life of flowers. She had become quite good other immortals had asked her to paint there likeness on canvas.

Kat was out fighting with someone so it was just the two of us. She had a way about her, maternal I guess. She would walk me through my frustrations putting me in the right frame of mind to deal with this crap. I had come very close to packing it in and letting them starve.

She never stops painting as I ranted on about the short comings of my peers. "You know what is coming Mac, they just have your word that it will happen; it shows how much they all trust you to tell the truth. Maybe you should volunteer for the post since you don't really have a stake in this fight."

Well that was not the way I thought that conversation would go, crap. I sat and sulked as she just kept on painting like I wasn't in the room.

Kat came back in covered in mud with a big smile on her face she got one foot in the room before Lillian gave her the death stare. It was pretty funny she looked like wile coyote before he falls to his death. "Em maybe I should get cleaned up a little before tracking this dirt in."

Lillian gives her a nod, "what a wonderful idea Kat." Looking back at her canvas then putting down her brush and walking over and sitting next to me. "All done pouting?"

"I don't pout, I ponder."

"You say potato, I say patato. You know we are going to get dragged into this anyway. You men need some calming sense. Make it so if Aro feels that he needs to inforce a death sentence on any of the five covens here he needs at least two others to agree. And it must be one of the five of you here no transfer of votes."

I sat there stunned that might work, it hit all there problem the only thing I hated was my participation in it.

It went surprisingly fast after I suggested just that, only two years of debate. And only five years to hammer out the rules or should I say rule, fade out of eye sight become legends. For the first five hundred years you had three warnings the forth was a death sentence. After the trial period maybe one warning it would go by case by case bases. If you made a "mess" you would have to clean it up if that means you have to kill ten or fifteen humans then so be it however any more than that would be considered a breach. We couldn't have whole sale slaughter of the herds that was what we were trying to prevent. We also agreed to help inforce the rules if Aro called for help. And that was when I had to drop my little secret.

"You live where?" Zeus bellowed after I had told them about America.

"A new land and only two covens for all those humans and you don't even eat them" Torrin asked in disbelief.

Zhou was the calmest, "I would like to visit sometime my friend after all I have had you in my home."

Aro had a calculating look on his face. "Will the sickness fall on that land?"

I looked at him uncomfortable, "not at the same time it will take 4or5 hundred years to get there. Humans bring it over then 9 out of 10 die."

"So if worse comes to worse we can just go there till the humans come back." He spoke about it like they were crops.

I looked at them; "humans are not so densely packed there they move like our nomads following there pray. If you hunt this land dry and then move to my home you will be killing yourself. They will never come back quick enough for all of you. You might want to keep this inside of the five covens if all the others find out about it you may find a dry land."

Aro and the others nod in agreement "it is good that we have a backup place to hunt if our humans die out. You must bring one person from each coven to your home and show them around so we will have the lay of the land."

I don't like it but it was pretty much what Ature and I had discussed. "Fine, it is a vast land almost as big as your lands combined. The other coven is not to be disturbed he was the first immortal I had met in this life and the debt I have to him is great. He is my brother and I will defend his lands you will do well to remember that."

Aro working to keep the piece nods, "as you say it is a huge land more than enough room for us if it comes to that."

I mentally groin, "I also have a vast herd of humans. Although my coven doesn't eat them they are Kat's people. I have watched over them for over 2000 years. They started as a small tribe of a couple hundred. Now at last count there are five cities and several hundred thousand humans."

You could hear a pin drop. They were so shocked they were speechless. I had more humans than the Greeks and Romans combined and I didn't eat them. That's like owning a lake and a man dying of thirst can only look at it.

"If you eat on my lands you better make every kill a clean one. If I hear or see anyone playing with their food I will burn them. And they better drink ever drop no wasting. If it comes to it you have my leave to take the whole herd to keep your covens alive. But not one more than you need."

Aro clears his throat, "that is quite a promise Mac and I know if you say something you mean it. I in turn will give my word and my covens' word to hunt on your lands as you asked." The other three were quick to say the same, some going so far as to ask if I would not mind a small party to come for a visit.

cats out of the bag they know about the USA