And then the door was open, and my mother was hugging me tight.“Joshua.”I was home.Everything in the house seemed the wrong size, as if I had grow... while I was away, or the world had diminished.But dinner was everything I remembered. The goings-on in the village were the same stories, woven in a different yarn.The most surprising news was that my mother was dating. A nice man, Jamaican-Canadian, working in a logistics company. Divorced, no kids. I got the impression it was quite new for her,. Pulling out, and standing up, he hope he gotten her pregnant with his child. Figuring it would be the only way to get her to marry him, cause she would never believe that he wanted her Katie, and not Sally. Katie open her eyes when he had left. Packing up her stuff she went home. Walking into her room, she told Sally to get the hell out of her room and go fuck her boyfriend in her own room. After they left, she slam the door and went to bed. The next morning she went about her business as. "Vanlo, we must find out who is responsible for this. If I discover that the Emperor had anything to do with this..." We unfortunately do not have that answer for you as yet, your Lordship." Have you discovered anything at all from that hair that Lanno found?"Vanlo could sense the desperation in the Overlord's voice. Roquan wanted so much to blame someone for this. The Healer realized that Roquan likely had already tied this back to the Emperor, and this disturbed him. While Vanlo was indeed. Eventually she confesses. She’s been allowed to pay so little because Archie has been visiting her once a week and getting the interest out of her naked body instead. Archie’s wife was aware of the arrangement but said nothing since she didn’t like his sweaty, whisky soaked body on top of her. Last night, they had argued. He’d pressed her, once again, to ‘do that thing’. She’d said it was dirty and disgusting and she would only let him have her vagina (her lala, she called it). She didn’t.