All my Art was like an errant breeze, as much as it affected him."Danica contemplated her own foolishness in attempting to steal the spell books. It w...s rumored that Zoraster was powerful, but to hear one accomplished in the Art — for the teleportation spell the old woman used with barely a thought was a very advanced spell — tell of his true power... "I awoke here, in this very room. He used the same Art on me he has on you. His men came to me and probed me, but I lay limp as a rag doll. They. As she gets in the car she leans forward, and her blouse drapes open revealing her lacy red bra. She notices the direction of my gaze, leans over to kiss me and says, "Like the view do you? Nice aren't they?" As she wriggles in her seat to get her seat belt on, and to get comfortable, her skirt rucks up higher on her thighs, revealing her stockings and suspenders. I smile and place my hand on her leg, just at the point were her skin is revealed, and gently rub her leg, sliding my finger under. “I’m alright for now.”“If you change your mind, I can have something brought up in a moment,” she reminds him. “Now I know you were expecting something more formal, but I’m going to have to insist we’re get even more casual.”Townsend swallows nervously. “W-what do you have in mind?”“Well, I don’t suppose you brought a bathing suit with you,” she says.Townsend shakes his head.“That’s alright,” Beatrix reassures at him with a new kind of smile. It is almost predatory. “Just go in that room and. We were sitting there staring in space with our empty bowls in our hands.Again I tried to start something.“So, how is your work?”“It’s fine” she said. Then she looked at me directly and said “I haven’t been doing too well recently. I haven’t be able to concentrate that well.”“You will be now. If you don’t want to go back, don’t. You can stay here as long as you like. You can go to work from here. I will find some other place. You can continue living here.”“You’ve been a great help, Nikhil..