..I tugged down my skirt and padded overto the closet it my stocking feet to search for my shoes. I had to holdmy knees together as I stooped down in...my tight skirt to pick them up,but I was pleasantly surprised by how easily they slipped onto my feet.Nylons were good for something!What else? My pearl necklace had a little clasp in the back, and it tookme forever to figure out how to get it fastened. I'll never make thattrain! I'd put off getting my ears pierced, although I wished now. Her mom and dad were busy with keeping guest happy and running the party. Peggy was busy entertaining the young graduates and I was busy keeping her mom and dad happy so they would ignore her.The k**s were all around the keg. I had taken all the guys keys from them and made sure that anyone needing a ride hm was either not drunk, or I drove them.as the party wore on and most of the adult guests left, I helped clean up and told her mom and dad to relax and if they wanted to go to bed I would be. Ben and Frank both wanted a foreign military intelligence person from the Pentagon to help in the questioning.I was opposed and let it be known loudly. The more involved, the much greater the chance of leaks and fallout. After much discussion I finally relented with conditions.The limit would be two. I needed to be careful about how many knew about Camp Smith and the goings on here other than the training we did there. Agents Croft and Doyle I trusted. They trained at Camp Smith and had worked. I liked her walking with a bounce to her step. I liked the way she would get wide-eyed seeing something new on our travels.We were in Grahata, one of the great free cities of the Nimborgoth. The vast gem and metal mines of the island made the city wealthy, even if you couldn’t tell by looking at it. The Valyans bought their iron from Grahata to make their famed steel. Kings would commission crowns from the goldsmiths and whitesmiths of this city.And Sophia stared at her feet.I sighed as we.