This day I was distracted by the passing traffic on the narrow and winding road outside. Every form of vehicle from semi-trucks to small cars were fly...ng down and up the valley road. Most of them seemed to be well in excess of the speed limit given the tight curves through this section of road. I was thinking to myself it was some kind of miracle that more accidents didn’t happen. All it would take is a wandering moose or deer from the forest to cause any of these to end up in the river. That. Just then the door opened and Skylar walked in. I hadn't met him beforebut we had exchanged emails about customer targeting. Skylar was muchsmaller than I had expected, probably about five foot six, with shoulder-length blonde hair and a very pretty face for a guy, with full lips. Istood up to greet him and thought, wow, he'd make a terrific woman.I made him a coffee and we chatted as he got his stuff put away. We'd bethere for about a week or so, depending on the contract negotiations. Iwas. Despite not being unusually tall ormuscular she carried herself with a controlled grace and radiated a forceof will which made her appear all the more formidable to both enemies andfriends. Right now, however, that willpower was mostly channelled intofrustration, which made her appear almost like a human thunderstorm. Shegrumbled to herself, muttering the names of several older (and male)members of her order whose stubbornness and lack of flexibility werecurrently hindering Anya's pursuit of. "Jeannie, you conniving piece of turkey shit, you weren't stuck up here at all, were you?"I dropped down a branch, and jumped the last six feet, landing right in front of her. She grinned, wrinkling her nose."Nope," she said, then took off running.I chased after, watching her skirt billow up around her butt, her skinny legs flashing in the hot Texas summer sun. She was fast, but I'm faster. Maybe 'cause I wasn't wearing clodhopper leather boots, but regulation black California high top Keds. We.