Still, all in all, it was a solitary life I led. I had taken care of Papa after Mama died, and by the time he was ‘called home’, as the Baptists a...e prone to say, I found myself a spinster who must make her way having no male relatives to whom I could turn, I opened this shop. I carefully laid the book down, marking my place, and made my way from my private quarters in the back of the shop to greet my customers. My hands ran over my hair to make sure it was smooth, during the humid summers in. It was wrong, she was eighteen, I was old enough to be her father.It still felt good though. “That was really nice,” Sammy announced, “I never had anyone spunk in me before, it’s really really nice.”“What now?” I asked.“Dinner I guess, then I have an assignment to work on.” she announced.“Not going out?” I queried.“No point really,” she explained, “I go out to get laid but I’ve been laid so it’s a bit pointless really.” She paused. “What are you going to do?”“Stay in I guess,” I agreed,. Bruno et Valérie travaillaient à la mine, elle au secrétariat, lui à l'entretient des machines, mais les rumeurs de fermeture du site étaient de plus en plus évoquées.Les temps était durs, surtout dans une ville minière touchée par la crise. Ils s’inquiétaient tous de plus en plus pour l'avenir de la famille.Julie avait fêté ses 18 ans la semaine auparavant. Elle avait invité une amie pour la soirée; Valérie avait fait un gâteau et Bruno lui avait acheté une robe bleue, en tissus simple mais. "He turned and walked into his lab, and crossed over to his apparatus. He lifted the flask from the table and held it up to the light, turning it one way and then the other. He nodded slowly to himself."Indeed. As I had suspected."He placed the flask down carefully, making sure it did not sit too close to an edge and get knocked over. Just in case the Overlord would not believe even the word of his own Healer.He returned to the treatment room. "Sirinna, I have a question for you. When you.