Berger, could we join you," came from Sonja and Caroline inunison."Call me, Susan, and yes, if your mothers agree."They agreed and we were off as a co...pany of four. I guess, no chanceanymore to go into the boy's part of the shops and since my Mom toldthem that I don't like pants, no chance to collect a kind of androgynousset of clothes. That much about my choice in which part of the shop Iwould like to shop. Anyhow, I have had the feeling that to go with theflow was easier.What followed was. I nodded and turned back to the Keep. As I came in the wounded elf stood up, “well that was interesting.”I smiled as I walked past him and started down the stairs calling up to Jeremy, “Jeremy! It is safe!”Cat met me on the landing of the next floor. I embraced her and gave her a kiss before heading down again, “did you leave someone at the stairs?”She nodded as she fell in beside me, glancing at the elf following me, “pick up a stray?”He laughed, “he said you have a daughter that was a healer. Just like the wedding that one time," he said with a lot of uncertainty."Are you crazy? Mom and dad would kill us, and you know that car you love so much would be gone. They take these parties so seriously." "Ya I know but… let's think of what we do know." He said as he slid closer to me and looked directly at me with that look like this was happening no matter what. "They all wear masks right?" Well… we found masks, doesn't mean they all wear them." Really? Why would only some of them be. She watched, her mind numb for a few moments, trying to forget that she was now completely and utterly alone, so far from the city life where she was once able to glow brightly. There was no husband, or at least one that hadn’t cheated on her or cared a fig about her or was even prepared to fight to keep her. There was no lover and now, clearly, no potential lover. That was why she was crying.Daniel didn’t desire her, that much was clear to her now. He probably never did. Like this potential.