I opened the bedroom door and saw Billy packing some of his favourite possessions into a faded green army kit bag. He glanced up as I entered but carr...ed on sorting through his books.“Where are you going?” I asked as my brain tried to comprehend what was going on. “Are you leaving without even saying anything?”“I was going to say goodbye,” he muttered as he picked up a battered paperback.“The Metamorphosis of Mr Samsa, do you want to read it? It sums up this place.”I shook my head and watched. How do you feel about iced coffee?”“Why don’t I see if I can find an assistant teaching assistant? Seriously, forget about the coffee. I have a lot of other things to get rolling. I need my schedule of classes and enrollment. We need to order scripts for King Lear. I liked the French’s edition of R&J, so let’s go with that. We’ll need a meeting set up this week or next with Jim Mason to go over scenic concepts. Are you planning to be my AD?”“Yes?” she squeaked. She scrambled for a pad of paper. " She thought about all those times as she had aged when she had wished for her youth back, regretting all the things she had not done. Now she had it and all those opportunities missed were so far behind her that it seemed almost a cruel joke.Xeno's voice in her mind was very soft, "Revekah, for every missed experience you leave behind, I will give you a thousand new ones. We will see the universe. I have so much to show you and share with you. Do not regret what you leave behind. We have a. There were aspects of Ishtar's worship that seemed familiar - many of the rituals were the same as I had learned in K'Nos on K'ftiu. I learned the essentials quickly, and with one thing and another I was soon anointed as a servant of Ishtar and assigned to a small frontier city named Kirqas. As I was a comely woman I drew a duty I had not foreseen - it was my sacred duty to lie with any man who came to the temple to thank Ishtar for some blessing. And many did. Though it was a small city, we.