"Found another one!" she told me. "I came in here this morning, but you weren't here." Then she walked into my empty room. I stood there for another...minute, and when no one was around to notice, I followed her into the empty classroom.Today she was wearing black leggings and a Wolverines Track and Field hoodie. Damn, those leggings. They left little to the imagination and of course, school rules said their tops had to cover their rear fully. That rarely happened. I've done several. .”“But...” interjected Ava once again.“But he will never be my daddy. Dad, you are always going to be my daddy, and he now understands that. Nor will he ever be any kind of second class anything. The two things, daddy and father, are totally different things that’s all.“Dad, I love you, and I adore him—period. I do not love Julian Willis yet, not sure if I ever will because I don’t know him, not really. I know what kind of man he is, and to say that I respect him ... At any rate he doesn’t love. In the end, she figured maybe they'dtalk through many of their differences anyway, as no matter what, she'dbe marrying him the following year whether her father liked him or not.Even though she had her way with him, it wasn't like Jamie was spinelessor a total wimp. He was a caring person with a good career as afreelance journalist and earned a decent wage.She figured he shared sports and a lot of political views in common withher father anyways, so hopefully they'd feel better about each. ‘The council stopped feeding me, and yet I didn’t starve to death.’ His work on her wings was progressing swiftly. It seemed he was getting better at it with every spot he covered. ‘I don’t remember eating their food, though. As far back as my memory reaches, I’ve caught my own. I don’t know why I stayed in the village for as long as I did.’ Black again went quiet. ‘How long did you stay?’ prodded Lei. ‘Well…’ Black paused, yet again moving his attention to a new spot on her wings. ‘One day, a.