”I took the card, “I will inform her majesty.”I turned and walked out of the park and headed for the palace. When I entered the empress’s stud... she was speaking with several minor nobles and a fleet admiral. I waited and saw her eyes flicker to me before she continued. She finally gestured and they moved away and I moved to the side of her desk. I glanced at her guards, “We need privacy.”One looked at me before nodding and whispering and moving towards the door while the other guards herded. "I could barely meet her gaze; it was such a touchy subject. "I might need to see a urologist. A specialist. You don't specialize in that, do you?"She sighed again. "Daddy, do I have to call in the nurse to hold you down? Tell me what's wrong and let me take a look."Finally, I capitulated to her insistence. I sat down on the table and told her about burning sensations when I urinated sometimes. She listened intently and nodded occasionally. Then she moved her stool closer and sat before. ’ With that, he walked off, triumphant. Oh, God, I thought. Who was number 4? ********************************************************************* I think that I went to work the next day. I mean, I know that I did, I just don’t remember anything about it. The day after that, I called in sick. I stayed home and read Edgar Allan Poe stories. The Black Cat and the Tell-Tale Heart didn’t make me feel much better. Edgar Allan himself didn’t put in an appearance, either. The only person left to. "It's alright," she admitted. "I only rent this half of the house. I have some savings. Sometimes I think that I'd like to buy a place of my own, but it's easy to lose interest when there would be no one to share it with." I was born to teach Math," James said. "I'll be doing that somewhere. It might not be in this Valley, after everything that's been said about me."She didn't answer, but filled their wineglasses again, draining the bottle."I haven't had Chianti in a long time," James said. "I.