So much fun was had by all we decided to make these parties a regular thing rotating around the four houses. All of us were comfortably off and had ho...ses capable of accommodating a table of eight. In the case of the Trelawney’s it would be a slightly tight fit but manageable. All of us left together the Trelawneys one direction and the two of us and the Fosdykes the opposite so we strolled along together it was a crisp but beautiful spring night with the moon just past full. Tabitha had on a. A different sort of demonstration than what we've been giving them, as it were." Mmm." I know, you're bored, weddings are kind of a girl thing. But they're important. I want to do this really right, it's my only time. And doing it right means I have a matron of honor, that's Janet, and you need a best man. I know you don't have close friends on board, but there's Gustav, there's Bernard, maybe even John—" I have an idea on that front," he interrupted."Okay, who?" You will know soon enough. Will. We approached from the south. I had the kids look around and take turns stating what was different about this city than the towns that we passed through.First and foremost this town was completely walled, not even the town that the duchy was in was walled, and most of those walls were in the middle of the town. This one, Royal Oak, was about three times larger; it was almost a mile in diameter. The walls were stone, about twenty feet high and two feet thick. The smell of unwashed bodies was. . Stevey to Chris.Chris is a year younger than me, but he was the one who grew up to be an athlete. By the time I was a senior in high school and he was a junior, he was six-feet-five and the star on our better than average basketball team. I preferred baseball but wasn’t particularly good at that either. It was a good thing we had a small school or I’d have never made the team.We were pretty good in school, typically getting A’s and B’s, but if Chris had one failing it would be that he was.