Closing my eyes to concentrate, I found the source of the mana and reached out, as I'd shown Alistair on the hapless darkspawn Emissary. I heard a scr...am as I seized that power, but then had no idea what to do with it. Crawling back to the tent flap, by the wan moonlight I could see Alistair bleeding from a slash to the arm, and all of a sudden instead of being afraid, I was angry. How dare these bastards try to hurt my family? I growled and felt the power I held change, move somehow, and. He didn't pull back and our bodies continued to move together. At the next corner, he stumbled slightly and put his arm around me to balance himself. His arm remained there, holding me tightly against his body and I savoured the feeling of his strong hand against my body. It wasn't just his hand that was touching me. As the train moved, a hardness began to stir in his crotch. He cleared his throat, pressing himself against me as he did so. Shivers ran through me as this stranger began to rub. "She said nobody liked me." You said she is impulsive. And acts before she thinks. You said you weren't going to take it to heart," I reminded her and she groaned."I know, but I thought about it and a true friend doesn't say those sorts of things, do they?" I guess it's difficult," I offered as an explanation. "You are always telling her off. Of course she is going to snap and you know what she is like." I am trying to help," Zoe whinged in response and held open the double doors at the bottom. Life was not dull for us - not ever!It was my thirty-fifth birthday and Abby threw me a surprise party at one of the local bars. When I got home from work that night Abby said she wanted to eat out. I asked her where and she said the Watering Hole."I have a craving for one of their half pound ground rounds with a big slice of Bermuda onion."We walked into the bar and the surprise was complete and we settled down to party. It was a Friday night and the Hole had a band so the drinking and dancing.