At 09:37 AM 3/6/98 +0800, you wrote:

YB2

	Energy-pangs are a bitch  - Youma have to eat the same way humans
do, but their powers require energy that can't come from food.  And when you
run out...'hungry' doesn't describe it.

YB7

	Around half an hour later I had a good portion of food ready, for a
youma, anyway.  Most of us eat like Sayiajin's if we have the opportunity.

Of

course, it all goes into our powers, strength and speed, regeneration, that
sort of thing.               ^^^^^^  

Urk! this is why I hate my spellchecker.
It's susposed to be '...all goes into our prowess.." rather than powers.
I suspose it changed stuff without notifying me again...sigh.

	You may have a contradiction here.  You said in
Youma Blues 2 that "...their power require energy that
can't come from food."  But in Youma Blues 7 you said
"...it(the food) goes into our powers,..."

	So the sword finally made an appearance.  Looks
like it will be a major factor in Aoi's life.

Oh yes.

	For my previous question as to why Mercury would
recognize Aoi, my mistake.  They did meet before, and
I remembered when I reread YB.

	For the programming language Aoi is making for
magic, it sounds familiar.  Too familiar.  I've read
something practically identical in a fantasy series
by Rick Cook.  I think it's the wizardry series, about
a guy who was transported to a magical world through
a summoning spell.  He then learned that you could
control magic there using programming, so he made a
"spell engine" of sorts.  The last I heard it was
already in its 4th book.

? havn't heard of this.  I'll have to look it up(sounds good), but I 
doubt my effects will be at all similar.  Aoi will be doing 
something very..odd.  Less like a magical style based off programming
than a programming technique applied to magic, if you will..
Recursive spellcasting.  Think about it.

	All can I say for Aoi and Cat is... CONGRATULATIONS!
When's the wedding?  I knew you could do it! :P

Rolling of eyes.  Don't count on that just yet...

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