At least that way it would still be terrible what we were doing but I wouldn't feel the immense guilt of betraying my best friends trust. We had been ...est friends since day one of secondary school 8 or 9 years ago. I was stuck in a place nobody wanted to be. Katherine was who I believed to be the love of my life. I trusted her and loved her implicitly. I just didn't know what to do. The one thing I did know for a fact was that what I had now with Kath couldn't stop. There had to be a way to. He was loud, boisterous to the point of being annoying. Ken attributed this partly to his over inflated ego, partly to his hanging out in noisy, speaker-filled clubs like the one he was in.He watched as Morales talked animatedly to three young girls. He doubted any of them were even eighteen. Gesturing with his hands and arms, Morales kept up a running dialogue of what Ken assumed to be pure bullshit, designed to intrigue the girls, or at least one of them.Ken sat down on a padded plastic stool. Earl White drove semi's. He had been on the road for six weeks, wasdrunk as a skunk and weighed a ton. I wrestled him into bed and let himpass out. Perfect. Maybe an hour before anyone checked on me.I slipped down the hall and click- heeled my way down the steps.Mirra's office was across from the second floor landing. Not there,he'd never be so obvious. I thought about it. This is your savings,your nest egg. Where do you put the film so that you can get to it fast-- in case of fire or the. ." I tried to cut in. "I shall choose as champion..." He scanned the tree-line, seeming to think. "I chose... Thaxis, the Satyre!" And a small, goat-legged man stepped from the clearing, seeming to have been waiting for this moment. "What are you..." I tried to cut in again. "And I shall choose as champion..." Valsivale also scanned the tree-line, but suddenly snapped her gaze in a very discomforting direction, "Lady Ailara!" It was at this moment my attention had just been caught by the.