You will receive quarters and sustenance suitable to your station here at the castle. Further you will receive 1 gold coin for each execution that you...carry out."I bowed my head. "Thank you Sire."I was lead out of the room and taken to the Head of the Guard.The head of the Guard, a fatherly man named Miles, arranged for a room and clothing for me. Then he showed me the tool I would use for the next 10 years.A headsman's axe designed and made for the sole purpose of separating a person's head. ” The three of them looked around for the source of the mysterious voice, but they saw no-one. At that point, they saw the other students in the corridor begin to fade away, along with all the walls and floors. They looked around, and saw that they were stood in an ornate living room, not unlike the dining room from before. In it, the other members of the society were sat around with their genies. “You could have just called us,” Sophie said.“Yes, but this is so much more fun,” Neil smiled.. We went into an open courtyard of the café, walking down some open, iron steps, almost like a fire escape to get to the tables. At the bottom was a table which is where I would sit if I went there. Any guys sitting there would be able to look up the skirts of any girl walking down.Sarah and I went to another table in the corner and pretty soon a waitress had brought us a large coffee pot. We talked for a while, then a group of three young men, maybe 18 or 19 years old, walked down the steps and. Even so, any kind of an investment fund would leave him on the edge of not having to work again, at least at Bradford prices. While Dave intended to stay at Duncan and Fyre for a while, he was becoming increasingly detached from the office politics and hassles -- all he really wanted to do was his work and stay above the petty stuff.Not much came out of his meeting at the office, either. In the days before this trip to New York he'd finished up Maiden of Hvalfjiordur, thinking it was a pretty.