The friends greeted each other warmly, despite the weather, and rode side by side to exchange news and to discuss tactics for the coming campaign. Sco...t knew they risked the wrath of the High King for not committing their fullest strength but he was damned if was going to suffer the heartbreak he had the year before - High King or no High King! The friends had all agreed that leaving sufficient forces to defend their camps was something that had to be done. In any event, Scott planned a. No office party, and no Christmas either?”“Apparently. I’m as stuffed as the turkey I’m not going to eat. There’s no food in my flat because I was going to leave straight from the office. My parents are away so I can’t go there even if I still had a key which I haven’t. I’ll have to see if there are any shops open when we finish. Or else I’ll survive on ancient tins from the back of the cupboard. What a boring Christmas!”Belinda leant back and looked at me.“How do you like the idea of being Mr. She always gave of herself, her person and her funds. It was in her nature to believe it was her duty to help those less fortunate than herself. There she was, dressed like the angel she was in perfect white. On her neck was a dainty chain of diamonds. And on her wrist was a matching bracelet. Her ears were marked with a long chain of them that sparkled as she turned her head, catching the light. And she stood in the center of the room, totally unaffected and unaware of the fact that she was. The track was wide here for the links to compress their masses together and the sprocket at the top turned at a speed that tended to mass the links together. At the bottom and leading up to the right-hand side was a much narrower track where only one link would fit through at a time. That and the way that the bottom sprocket turned, allowing the links loose one at a time made the mass on the left side about five times heavier than the mass on the right side.When let loose the mass on the left.