The other slavers guilds are now suddenly pulling up stakes and leaving all their stock behind. No one wants to cross Aric. He's being called the libe...ator of the slaves. In one night Aric has totally crushed the slavery market in Galicia."We can now get the wealthier patron to help clean this up because we, ahem, made it known that you were our guest and took a dim view of how everything was when you came to our city," smiled the Chancellor."WHAT! Are you using me to..." started Aric, but. “I wanted everybody to see us together.” She leaned over and kissed him, saying softly, “I’m really happy that we’re together. And I just wanted everyone to know it.”They tossed a coin to see who would go in first and Jane won.Apparently a lot more people had come than had actually been invited because a barely controlled chaos reigned inside the house, supposedly presided over by Suzy’s parents. Suzy’s mother was in fact heading out the door as Jane came in, and they almost collided. Jane. I just realized that I never really knew her. What I saw was all a lie. She wanted me to get screwed at fourteen. She put daddy up to all those pictures. She knew what we were doing in that studio out back. She knew what those men were doing to me, and she got off on it. I find that so hard to accept." We all put on faces, Mom. You did with me and Dad." That's true, but nothing like Mom did with me. She really had me fooled. She had everybody fooled." Yeah, but won't it be good to put that lie. Traveling with her was Tyanne’s familiar, Tagnik’zuur, a two-foot long pearl-scaled fae dragon. Lastly, but far from least, there was the small golden crucifix she wore on a fine gold chain, a constant reminder that she would never be truly alone. Tyanne’s faith had been tested over the years and she had seen all manner of things to make her both believe as well as doubt. But what she—and tens of thousands of others—witnessed in the final moments of the Great Battle had forever ended that.