"Evil, cunning man," she said in a low whisper to her cards. "We have duelled of old but to barter this?" She looked up and said, "I pledge my place a... polemarch of ravens."Euphony nodded slowly and tension entered her music. "Crone, Emperor, make your destinies."The Old Emperor moved first. In a voice of graves, he said, "To know the past is to know the future so I shall speak legend."I remember when men were young. The world was a dark place, then, and we were prey not hunters."He placed down. “You like my breasts? Eww.” I stuck my tongue out. “Mikey likes my breasts, Mikey likes my breasts.” He caught my hands as I tried to fend him off, and pinned them at my sides. “Ah, no, please! Please I’ll do anything you want, just don’t tickle me! Anything!” I laughed, twisting to get away. “Alright, little miss squirmier, alright. Anything hmm?” He looked at me with such a devious expression on his face I had to laugh. We settled down again, this time with his arm wrapped around my torso,. I'm not a adolescent girl. I don't need to see your face when a simple text will do. Call me an old bastard, get-off-my-lawn type, but that's the way it is. (By the way, I'm not that old).So when that mechanical beeping emanates from my phone that someone wants to FaceTime me, it's definitely out of the ordinary. Especially when it's 10:30 on a Tuesday night. I got to my phone and it said "Ann FaceTime video."Well, this was different. Ann Next Door and I been fooling around on the side a few. "In a couple of minutes, John was able to pry most of the story from Heather. "That's strange," he said. "That would have had to have been either Mark Gravengood or Mike McMahon, and those have got to be the two most even-tempered guys in town." I know Mike," she said. "It wasn't him. It must have been Gravengood. Why would he have done something like that to me?"John shook his head. "Heather, I'd be lying to you if I said that you haven't made some enemies in this town. I told you back before.