A special day as your training as a mage of the tower is complete. All that remains to take your place amoung that great order is to complete a quest ...et by your tutor. You rouse in your spartan bed chamber and wash your body, ready to present yourself to Alaria, your tutor and the ruler of your life for the past ten years, ever since you were gifted to the tower by your family. You never faulted them for it, coming from a poor peasant farming background, they already had enough mouths to feed. Fuck ‘em.”Ed stood up.“OK, Jones. We get the picture. Good job. Put the flag away.”Ed turned to the others.“Jeff, what did you guys find out about the girl?”“We saw her Friday morning but we couldn’t do it. She was with that girl detective, you know the one. She was checking out the high school kid earlier, and she and her partner were in the house when CJ and Randy got there that night.”Jeff paused. CJ and Randy were good guys. It was bad luck the cops were there when they got to the house to. I cocked my head to the side, curious. “Let’s go fuck in the Science Labs.” The Science Labs was actually a building full of both Labs and classrooms. Since the first floor of Labs was built first, and the classrooms added on several years later, the name stuck.I pulled on a pair of sweatpants, nothing more, grabbed a backpack and filled it with the appropriate equipment. Finally I grabbed the sleeping bag. Ellie had yet to put anything on. “I’m too lazy,” she said, and I laughed. I love. And everyone knew that the only reason I still had my job was that I had spread my legs for Jennings, our department head, the day after. His secretary had made sure of that. “I love you, Andrew!” He grinned at me with that cute, slight smirk that always made me melt inside. “So it’s just going to be us and a few friends, I guess.” “I’m sorry. I hoped that your family…” He didn’t let me finish. “The only person who’s important to be at our wedding with me is you.” * I had never in my life.