*******Thirty minutes later, Rick's phone went off. Checking the caller ID, he could see it was Angie. "Hey, baby!" he answered."Hi, baby!" she replie.... "Hope I'm not bothering you at work too much. It's been a fun and interesting day with Christine." Rick told her he was glad to hear that and asked her when she would be heading home. "Well that's kind of why I was calling." Angie's voice became slightly higher-pitched and unsure. Had Rick been more attentive rather than worried about whether. I remembered our first date together. Well, no, that isn't really correct either; it was half of a date actually. I was going with a girl at the time. Oh, god, what was her name? Never mind it's not important. Anyway she asked me to find a date for an old family friend of hers who was coming to stay with her family for a few days.I conned a pal of mine into coming along. The guy owed me a favour so reluctantly he agreed to come along. We picked the girls up in my friend's father's car and took. Ashryn immediately noted our discomfort, though. “Did I say something wrong? You are Lord and La-”“Ashryn, right?!” Katriana said loudly, stepped forward to shake a confused Ashryn’s hand, “It’s so nice to meet you. Yes, you’ve found the right people. You can call me Katriana, and this is my little brother, Theo. The armoured man here is our friend, Voss, who’s an adventurer just like you and I! Please, forget any formalities- treat us exactly like any other adventurers you’d meet anywhere.”The. Tina walked up to Tahir and grabbed his hand, "Mr. Tahir?" she started in her small, innocent, little girl's voice, "Are you ok? I was worried about you when you got angry. You felt so bad I was afraid that you were going to go away like mommy did" The tears were welling up in her eyes; Tahir looked at her and realized that she was right.He had almost lost his self to the anger. Shaking, he took a deep, calming breath."I wasn't Tina, but thanks to you I am now," bending down he hugged her close.