“Have you a name, eruchen?” She asked, boldly eyeing him up and down. He thought her eyes lingered on his shirtless chest for a moment, before fli...king back to his face.That word tickled at him. Eruchen; he felt like he should know it. “Aran,” he replied, offering a hand.The gorgeous Elf studied him for a moment, then finally smiled and clasped his hand. “I am Liaren.”Aran half-expected the spiritual melding that had happened with Jeira, but this time, no such thing occurred. Releasing her. .....'Time had no meaning for me as she washed my hair twice; put conditioner on it,cut and shaped it. Spent ages behind me tugging and messing about with it andthen she wrapped it up tightly in big rollers, put some smelly gunk on it andfinally cooked my head under a hairdryer on gas mark 7. I fell asleep and it wasonly when I heard a ting from the dryer that I woke up.The first thing I noticed was that Bridget had done strange things to my handswhile I was in the land of nod. They looked. " Whatever you want to do, waitress or dress clothes or nothing at all, I don't care. I just want to be with you. Oh, shit, I did it again. I'm sorry; sometimes I say things before I think." Henry, I'm going out with you because I like you. Would you just take it easy and don't try so hard." Lil, there's some things about me I need to tell you..." No, Henry, not tonight. I don't want to hear about your past and I don't want to discuss mine. You're the first date I've had in three years and I. “Nope ... real place,” I said.“Frogmorton?”“I grew up there until I sailed around the world.” Then I confessed, “It’s a National Forest now.”“Yup ... you’re her,” she said. “I never heard of a woman named Surprise before.”“Mom was surprised I wasn’t afterbirth,” I said. “So was the nurse.”“Shingle Bank and Trust of Grundy, Virginia is paying your bills ... evidently ... you are the ‘Trust’ part.” She looked ... confused. “Where are your siblings?”“Russia,” I qualified that,.