then I guess we're experiencing growing pains, and there's changes in the way the company who brought us thus far has to conduct itself as well.

Time to discard the security blanket, and no more bedtime stories from Mr. Nemis himself. Doesn't mean he doesn't care, just means we have to play by a different set of rules now.

Believers will just have to go on believing in the future of Noront with the knowledge and reassurances we've received in the past.

Non-believers will just have to keep on not believing, I suppose.

The stakes are high, the players are settled in for a dusk-to-dawn poker match, and now we have to rely on "tells" and nuances to guide us in between NR's.

I'm pushing all my chips into the center of the table. We have gleaned enough info into the magnitude of this geological find to decide if it's a bet worth taking.

Here's hoping Nemis "speaks" to us via a NR in the very near future.

GLTAL