”“Good enough. I’ll get back to you.”*************************Donald Upthorpe continued to attend services at St. Mary’s, although he declin...d to join in with the Communion. “Not yet,” he said, “I hope you’re not offended, but somehow, I’m not ready for that. Alice ... my wife ... is she really wanting to be ‘Gabrielle’ now? Is at Trinity Reformed, and I’m not ready to meet her. But, you know, I miss her.”“Do you now? I think that’s a good thing. Do you think you might be reconciled?”“It wasn’t. I was waiting for tomorrow night very keenly, I had ordered to come by 6.00, they came in exact time, they were bowled out by my house, it was a private villa, with private pool, which had 4 bedrooms, one made up bar, and a lawn for myself, they came in readied, I had told them to wear sexy sarees, I still find sarees more sexy than any modern outfits, as real sluts, they started speaking about money first, they wanted 50k for both included, I smiled, don’t worry about money whores, you will. I quickly checked all of the wards around my property on the way to the house to check on our Familiars. The property wards wouldn’t keep the Dragons out. They would, however, keep out any of the police or reporters who had followed us as well as any of the Ley Line Wizards.After returning to our human forms, we found our Familiars hiding under the table in the kitchen.“We’ll cast a reinforced silence spell around the table. There are a lot of Dragons that followed us home, and there are sure. River looked up at her, noticing the changes in the now naked woman,particularly the blood. "What happened to you?" I ... the river changed me," she said. "He ... it said this is mypunishment." It ... it spoke to you?" the girl wailed. "You are the newrivertalker?" She sobbed more deeply than ever before for a few seconds."No," Henri said. "It just was ... passing sentence. I have beenbanished from this place. The river said it is just not talking to younow." Now? You mean it might talk to me.