“Keep going! Same pace!” Jock yelled. Crap! He was sending us on for a third mile. There were only about twenty of us still running as the slowest...were culled again. I lost myself in the rhythm of the footsteps and shut everything else out. There were half a dozen of us ... maybe ten ... running at the same even pace when we came around the twelfth lap. “Keep going! Same pace!”The guy next to me looked over and I shrugged. We kept going. We’d done three miles in eighteen minutes. I knew the guy. Brian was nervous also, but he turned on the charm, and with a beer in hand, we started to chat and relax. Brian continued his sexual banter and compliments about Sally, and I could tell that she was responding as I had hoped.Eventually, I made the bold suggestion that we head upstairs. It was an agonising few moments, but Sally agreed and we went upstairs and into our bedroom. It needed me to direct the action to begin with, but they both responded to my supervision. Brian was keen not to. “What’s going on, Master?” Nathalie asked. Her voice lacked the normal fear. Since the fight, she had shed a degree of her timidity. She had discovered her strength thanks to Rubyforged, her armor.“One of the Biomancer’s things has been following us,” Sven said. He knelt and nudged the dead creature with his knife. “For days. Since Az.”“Longer,” I said, shaking my head. “I remember hearing owls after we exited from Faerie and while traveling through the woods. I didn’t think anything of hearing. So i just check them once in a few days.. One day a had a scrap in my account and it had mail id and requested for a chat. I do add it in gtak and i couldnt catch her online for about half a month and a fine rainy evening in which i cant wander out i found her online.Der we chatted normally for about an hour and after that things came personal and everything about each other was shared but she didnt share her name and any identity and at end of the chat i requested her mobile num to which she.