A hundred decisions with twenty wrong is better than no decisions at all. People were coming to me for a decision about something and I’d be wafflin... on about all the different factors to take into account. I knew it frustrated the hell out of my managers sometimes... Sara had fitted in with me because she’s so decisive and confident and complete. I didn’t have to be anything but myself around her. She certainly didn’t need me for any decision-making! But it didn’t feel she just wanted the job. It’s hard for him to garner any attention with you here.”I locked eyes with Art. “Okay,” he agreed. Doris nodded, too.“Okay, we’re going to move two seats – but one at a time! Doris has to stay low, for obvious reasons...” I directed. I snagged her jeans with my foot and transferred them to my outside hand, then breathed in her ear, “I’ve got your pants...”Doris was a sport and played along. “You gonna give then back?”“Maybe!” I teased. “What’re you gonna give ME?”Her hand dropped into my lap.. And sitting in the gap in the spikes was a man in a saddle.He looked only four years older than me, having brownish blonde hair that was messily arranged on his head and brown eyes. His armor wasn't recognizable to me. No one of my kind could have made it, so he must have been one of the strangers who had passed through our lands. At his belt there was a sword in a shimmering blue sheath that matched the color of the large flying reptile he was upon. Upon the sheath was the runes FIRE---the. I noticed you were having trouble as you stood there.”Emily turned back and glanced from Phil to Hailey. She recognized her as the girl from the club a few months earlier and frowned. She had never known Phil Warner to date anyone longer than a month.“You were at his house Saturday?” Emily asked.“My two friends were on a date with him and one of his friends,” Hailey said. “There was a third one so I went along. They were all creeps so we took advantage of their hospitality for as long as we.