Solona and Velanna were both kneeling beside the man as someone else poured a healing potion down his throat; the two blonde mages whispered quietly t... each other, exchanging sad glances, before Solona shook her head reluctantly at Nate. The nobleman’s eyes closed briefly, and I wondered if he was uttering a prayer for the obviously dying man. When he opened them again, they sparked with pure determination; he knelt down, murmured an apology, and drove a dagger straight into the man’s heart.. “I was too late getting home and missed the evening meal, so I adjourned to a nearby café and had some tinned sardines on toast.”“That don’t sound nourishing enough for an active man, and yah’re painfully thin for the size of yah frame. So I assume that yah meal is always served by yahr landlady at a given time in the early evening?”“Six-forty-five sharp,” I replied.“It is gone six,” she said, looking at her tiny wrist watch, “at my hotel I usually dine at eight, although they never actually. A thin hand squeezed myshoulder. "She's really very happy." Aren't you?" said Greg.I nodded into his embrace, took a deep breath and made myself look. Alittle girl, maybe five years old, in jeans and a bright red coat waslooking at me with concern shining from her face. A girl like me. Therewas Cassie, eyes twinkling behind her glasses - a woman like me - andthere was me, standing away from Greg slightly so I could smile at thegirl, beam at them all, look down and see my t-shirt outlining the. I knew I had a general idea what sex was and what went where when it came to boys and girls but I didn't think much of it because I feared my parents, Until one night I found out everything I needed to know about sex. My mom and dad worked at a law firm and were not home much and usually when they had to work late they had the next door neighbor babysit me, her name was Alice and she was about 60 years old, my parents trusted her and she was as uptight as they were so even when my parents.