“Good. She’ll do, just bring her on and come with me.”I rose from the table and pulled on Pam’s leash, and she looked up at me, terrified. “...lease…” she whispered, “please don’t let them do anything to me again…”“Baby, I can’t stop it… it’s just what you’ve gotta deal with, now. Now, be a good girl and don’t make it worse than it has to be.”She got up, reluctantly, but I held the leash tight and there was nowhere she could run to anyway. We followed Everett down the hall and down the basement. “I knew it.. you're a t-girl!” I got a bit defensive as I am want to do now and then.. “Yea I am, I don't hide it but I don't bring it up in conversation with people I just met” I heard her laugh softly as she stepped a bit closer to me “It's okay little dove, don't be angry.. I am too.”I'm sure my faced dropped for a few minute but I quickly broke out into a laugh despite my absurd position with a dress half over my head with stuck zipper. Both of us were laughing as she stepped the rest of. "I asked, "How come nobody mentioned that to me earlier?" You never asked, sweetie." She put on a warm smile. "Dragons aresimilar to sorcerers and sorceresses, and even before the white dragonappeared, there weren't too many who actually practiced magic. It's alittle difficult for some dragons to mix potions, y'know, and so theymainly stick to common spells." She pointed to the cat. "He is thedifference between sorcerer and mage. And only onedragon has had aconduit, an ancient dragon that was. ’ Annie smiled and kissed me, running her fingers through my short hair. ‘Kiki you are amazing, most people would be totally freaked out by what I just told you, yet you just take it in stride.’ ‘Well to be honest it did freak me out, but it’s not like I can change what happened so why stress over it? And I saw the way you looked at Marc earlier, you may have said he wasn’t your type but your look said you wanted him. I’ve always been good at reading people Annie. You have unfinished business.