“Tell him that. He tried to sneak away last night. Again.”Everyone laughed out loud as I smacked Zevran on the side of the head.Aedan looked over ...t Alistair pleadingly. “Forgive me?” Alistair softened and nodded with a sad smile. “Will you be okay?”Alistair sighed. “I won’t say I won’t miss you, but I’ll manage somehow.” He grumbled, “I’ll probably have to promote Loghain.” Aedan laughed.I released Zevran reluctantly. “Promise me you’ll be careful, and stay together. Don’t separate, no matter. “You are NOT talking me to death. Fucking me to death, yes! Talking me to death, no!”“I’m serious. Sit, please.”Bethany reluctantly moved to the loveseat in the sitting room of our suite at the Mark Hopkins InterContinental Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco. We’d checked in less than ten minutes earlier after an uneventful, but twenty-minute-delayed flight from Chicago.“What?” she asked.“I think we should keep this from the kids,” I said. “For a host of reasons. None of them know about. Mulai kaambu viraithu irunthathu, athai vaaiyil vaithu sappa aarambithaan.Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa sugamaaga irunthathu, iru mulaiyaiyum kaiyil pidithu kasaki konde suvaika aarambithaan. Moodaga irunthathu, pinbu en chudi pantaiyum kayatinaan, ulle karupu nira penty aninthu irunthen. Athaiyum kayatinaan, enaku bayamaaga irunthathu moodil ena seivathu endre theriya vilai.Ennai nirvaanamaaga padukaiyil paduka vaithu irunthaan, en pundaiyil vaai vaithu naka aarambithaan. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa naan sugathil. Then, in the morning, we could drive the back streets and see what we see around the terminal building.”“Sounds like a plan to me,” Scarlett told them. “I’m tired and want to get to sleep as soon as it’s dark.”When the meal was finished, including large slices of peach pie also found in the refrigerator and topped by ice cream, they piled the dishes in the kitchen’s dishwasher. As they cleaned up, Rose added some reality, “You know, with or without electricity, we’re getting close to the end of.