"Let's go and have a look?"With Aalia still in her tights and leotard, we headed for the stables, me struggling behind her in the massive heels:"Come ...n slow coach," laughed Aalia who clearly could see that I was struggling!"Slow down pet," I complained. "It isn't easy walking in these heels, never mind walking fast!" Now you know what we girls have to put with," Aalia continued to laugh.Finally I made it across the courtyard and into the stable block or cell block as I'd come to know this. As he twitched his graying moustache and wiped his balding head, Sam stood up straight all of a sudden at seeing that Dave had brought a guest with him. Dave knew Sam would have some smartass remark once he got within earshot, and he had the entire walk from the barn to think of it. Regina and Dave just smirked at each other as they braced for whatever was bound to come out of the man's mouth."What's this?!" Sam chortled as he arrived."Hey, Uncle Sam," Dave grinned."Dave brought his. Part of that means that I sometimes (well more than sometimes) have to tell my clients how to consolidate functions in order to improve service. That’s a euphemistic way of saying I tell them who to fire. It’s not a pleasant part of my job, and it doesn’t make me very popular with the people I work with. They may be the very ones who are going to be downsized when I’m through, so how can I blame them? In a consulting business, its people are its product, its inventory. I put that badly. Once a. How did you know?”“Just a guess, but an educated one. Things she said; things she did. It all reminded Robby and me of how it was before we met each other and were willing to admit it to each other and then be open about it. It’s one of those things you can’t understand from your side of the field. It’s probably similar to all of us not being able to truly understand the shit Clark, Larry, and Carter go through because they’re black.”“That makes sense,” I said.“What about Angie?” Sandy.