" "That would be wonderful, yes." AnnaLee stepped back and held the door open for her. As she drew close, Corrin caught the faintest hint of apple ...lossom fragrance. "That's a nice fragrance you're wearing." "It was... my mother's. Can I take your coat?" Corrin took off her coat and handed it to AnnaLee who hung it on a coatstand that stood beside the hall mirror. Corrin had taken great pains over her appearance that morning and wore a light green cardigan over a pale green high necked,. Some of my pals were total mobile zit-farms. OK, I'll confess to the odd infrequent blemish - the kind that usually erupts on a Friday night and you make it worse by messing with it - but other than that I was mostly presentable. I had the regulation number of eyes, ears and teeth. I just didn't have, couldn't get, a girl. The problem was the usual prime cause of teen-age angst. The girls I fancied didn't fancy me, and the ones who did, well, I didn't want to know. No wonder Auden called it the. Do you have the money?”“UH, no but I get paid again in two weeks.”“You know that…..”Just in time, Kelsey came with the Iced Tea. “You met my daughter, Kelsey, she has some Tea for you.”“Ah Kelsey you look very nice In that shirt. Kelsey loves her Dad, that is very sweet to have on your shirt.”I could see the look in Patel’s eyes. I wanted this to be his idea, puts me in a better bargaining position. I know he likes the young girls, so just a matter of priming the pump.“I was thinking maybe. ”“Demons?” Syl asked, clarifying.“Big, tey was,” the man nodded. “Big as a house. Big as a barn. Scaly and big. The knights knowed ‘em. The knights fought ‘em. Tey tried a lurin’ ‘em out a town and it worked – but den d’demons kilt t’knights to a body. Maybe a hunnerd knights tere was, all dead. Some few a ‘em were burned inside dere armor. Most a ‘em were ... I don’ know. Melted, looked like. Piles a melted meat and bones insides armor we’s can’t touch lest it melts our hands.”“Dragons they.