I moved out here from the Great Plains… Kansas… A very backwater place where the biggest thing that ever happens is a beer keg and cow-pie bingo. ...f you don’t know what that is, you are better off not knowing. Any way, I moved here to the big city, and out of the great Midwest… Into sunny California. After being here for a while, I got my job at a collections agency, and made a few friends there. It’s hard to make friends in a collections agency, I’ll tell you, but I managed to make friends. Like I said, you need to dump the baggage and get on with your life. Things will even out in the long run, depend on it,” she said, and then she giggled. I had to wonder what she thought was worth giggling about. I didn’t ask.“Yeah, well, I’m convinced of the truth of that,” I said, but I said it sarcastically. Now, she laughed outright.I liked talking to Marianne. She was one woman that I trusted. Her and Aunt Delia were about it though.My talk with Marianne actually decided me. I listed the. Follow me,” I led Gendry out to an alley where I could move him out of King’s Landing.I clicked thrice as usual and brought Gendry with me ... and my ladies, inside Storm’s End. The guards there, such as there were, proved to be a little bored and disenchanted, of course. The news about Renly’s death, followed by Stannis’s more recently, as well as the Lannisters all imposing their will on the various great houses of Westeros, had a real dampening effect on morale.“Guards, look at me ... this. You know; a dress with the back so low you moon every one you walk past, a neckline down to your bush and side slits up to the hipbone ... that kind of stuff." About nine months ago, Barbara got into a new field ... as an adjunct to her lounge wear, she thought to open a store dealing in sexual toys and other such merchandise; not the sleazy stuff you could find on Main but classy goods for spoiled rich kids and their parents. She wanted her store to reflect an atmosphere of good taste and.