“Your penalty fee is seven gold. If I add together everything I’ve got with me, it comes to just about seven, but it won’t leave me any money to...pay the wizard or buy supplies. I think it’ll have to wait until we return.”She sighed. It had been a nice thought, but dealing with the runes was more important. It would mean she’d have to return to Tyrsall before heading to Circle Bay, but she’d have likely done that anyway, rather than cutting across the countryside.“How will I go into the city if. There was only one answer and that was my wife Mandy. Hal saw it sink in and said:"Sorry Rob."All I could do was shrug my shoulders as I tried to get my mind around all that it meant."Let's take a look through the rest of the house, but first let me see if I can disable this thing."He picked it up, took a real close look at it and pushed on something and the battery pack slid out. He set it aside and said:"Now it won't record everything we do."It took a little over two hours to go through the. Instead, I take flak for it."Jason looked up. "I'm sorry."Henry met his son's eyes and shook his head. "No. You're not really sorry."Jason bit back a retort. He wanted to blurt out "since when did you have such keen insight into my head," but settled for something he hoped sounded more sedate. "I just don't get why she would be upset. It's not like I go to these things all the time."Jason understood that he could not fault his father; Henry sounded as irritated as he. Yet the father-son talk. Plus, some of the calls turned her on if she was honest with herself. There was something really rewarding about hearing someone relieve themselves on the other end of the telephone. However, Verity wasn’t sure about the fact that her friend had blatantly suggested that they embark on some phone sex together although Verity had to admit that the very idea had sent a zing though her body like a tongue being put on a battery. As she leant across to the coffee table and took a sip of her beer.