“Well, ladies and gentlemen, the first stage of the Inquisition process will begin. Tracey Smith, are you ready to make a full confession of your cr...mes?”Tracey stared at him in astonishment.“Confession? What do you want me to confess to?”“Your many crimes, Senorita,” said the smiling Gonzales. “It is now up to you. If you make a full confession we will be able to pronounce sentence immediately and it will not be necessary to subject you to the torture.”Tracey seized on the smidgeon of hope his. You have promised not to let this aberrance occur gain but we both know you stepped out. You may not tell your wife but deep inside you know you cheated on her."The two were by now watching each other warily as though sparring in a boxing ring."Perhaps Dawn too did not wish to tell you about her relationship with her boss, just like you don't want to tell her about us. She wanted to pull her boss out of the depression he had gone into after his wife died and chose a method, she considered best. III.This last bit is what reminded me of the whole "Joan" stories series.As the boys got older they all got real into Fantasy & cosplay, role-playing, DnD, swords & sorcery stuff. They were running around playing at hunting dragons or fighting orcs, etc. Smacking trees & each other with homemade swords, etc. I'd read them the Dragonlance books & my wife had read them the Harry Potter books & we're probably responsible for some of that nerdery.Anyway, Joan started taking them to these seasonal. Friday night she attended a ceremony designed to accept the new girlsinto pledge status. They had a semester to go before being formallyaccepted as full members, but Jackie was entitled to wear theorganization's pledge pin. The following Monday, university orientationand registration for classes would begin, with classes beginning onThursday morning. She registered for a usual spread of classesappropriate to a freshmen-English 101, Calculus 201, German 301 (she hadtaken it in High School),.