Or it would more correct to say that I didn’t want to believe her. But the mere possibility of there being a traitor in the Council was enough to ro... me of my peace of mind. So I went to the location where we had been ambushed by the griffin so that I could find conclusive proof that the griffin had me lured there and that someone was after me.”“And I did. I found the proof. In an abandoned apartment in the area were three baby griffins who had just been born. Three progeny of the griffin we. When Sidney and I showed up there on Saturdayafternoon and I told them what I was there for, theirjaws just dropped. It was sooo funny. Well, Sidney didn’tthink it was funny, but you would have.I had to explain to the guys a couple of times that I wasfertile those days and that I wanted to fuck all weekendwithout protection so one of them would put a beautifulblack baby in my belly. Sidney nodded dutifully when theyasked to make sure that he would assume all the duties ofbeing the daddy. “Huh?”“I love it, or an approximation, anyway. I don’t really speak Russian, but I am «культурный»!”“OK, I think I got that one - ‘cultured’?”“Yes, as in knowing how to act properly. The opposite is «некультурный», which is best translated as uncultured, or boorish. It’s a pretty significant insult to be called that.”“You had a thing with some Russian girl, didn’t you?”I nodded, “Tatyana Ivanovna Voronina, daughter of Ivan Konstantinovich Voronin, former Trade Attaché to the US. Our politics. And it was. Jessie and the rest of the brides maids had carpeted the whole hall and the elevated stage area. The chairs were simple white fold out chairs with blue and red flowers on them. White billowy material hung from the center of the roof to the walls to cover the windows. Even the un removable basketball hoops had white red and blue flowers. You could tell it was just a high school hall and Jacob loved it. This school meant a lot to both of them so the idea to have the wedding their was.