I ordered and looked around. Two other middle-aged couples occupied separate tables and a young man in jeans and T-shirt stood at the end of the bar. ...e had eyes only for the young bar girl. I looked across at Gaynor. Her head was bowed and her fingers were moving swiftly over what I assumed was her phone: texting. I paid for the drinks and as I approached, Gaynor put the phone in her bag, which she lifted off the table and placed beside her on the bench. “Cheers,” she said, raising the glass. I always admired the guy but that didn't keep me from doing my job and we won 32-21. I was very sore after the game.That gut was a load! I actually managed to get MVP again.Yule was even better than last year. I had seven different births to attend at the same time and due to all of the work we had put in at the hospital a ward was used. This way Their "brother" could be in the room with all of them when the children were born.It blew the staff away when the children were born in sequence with. It was good but not nearly as good as the breakfast restaurant out on the highway. So I supposed I would be driving to the highway service road the next couple of days. At least for breakfast.There was also a nice steakhouse in the parking lot of the Embassy. After my last experience with steak, I decided to pass on the steak. The mother of the college boy hadn't come to work. It was obvious she worked the lunch and dinner shifts.After breakfast I drove the block to the docks and found a. Sergeant Kylon was called, and he strongly supported the measure, giving testimony that the elves he’d accepted were some of the hardest working and most effective of his guardsmen.All of that was forgotten, however, when Cailan introduced Kallian as the Bann of the Alienage. Evidently Valendrian had been allowed to choose who would speak for the elves, and he and the other elders had unanimously chosen Kallian. She came in and stepped down onto the floor with several other Banns and lower.