“I would like my payment now, Lord Darkeye...” the Lich King hissed.Lord Darkeye nodded by bobbing his eyeball. Then he snapped his eye-stalk arou...d to glare right into Alex’s face. A reddish light flared across her face and she opened her mouth, her hands clenching. She shuddered and I shoved her out of the way, leaping at her. The two of us hit the floor and I scrambled to my feet, glaring at Lord Darkeye. “I’m going to rip you apart!” I growled, a psi-sword flaring to life.“Brash!” P90. She was a graduate from the Royal Academy of Music and now taught piano and clarinet. She had also sung solo soprano at public concerts but after she married and Nell was born she found she did not have the time to rehearse let alone range round concert halls and confined herself to the church choir.Nell was three plus years older than Toby. She was developing into a good looking young woman but no great beauty. She had benefitted from her mother’s teaching but was nowhere near as accomplished. Things were going great between them with sexual tension building after every lunch and after work drinks. After one messy party they had drunken sex in a hotel room and things have been awkward since. They had to lead a Skype presentation together late one night. It went well but they were left alone together to celebrate.After a pregnant silence, Vanessa cleared her throa,t “Well, I’ve got all my stuff so I’m just gonna skedaddle. Thanks for helping me take care of this.”“Wait, I um I just. ”“Yeah, that was Amelia’s idea,” Jeremy said proudly. “I wonder how this will shake up the Program people.”Soon Jeremy left for home, but later that evening, he called Amelia.“Hey darling, what’s up? Not that I don’t want to talk...” she answered and then listened for a while. “Wow, really? ... Yeah, I’ll tell them ... Bye, sweetie, love you.”She went out to the main room where Denise and Kevin were working on their coursework.“Jeremy says that Hanford called his mom again. The people who have.