Off to the side, Ken was laughing as he dismounted from the cart. Dave looked at the man with a smile. “Thanks for making her achieve her dreams.”...en laughed, “Oh, we’ve only started. Now she can carry passengers on good weather days, but we’ve got to make her an all-weather pilot, and get her a commercial rating which will help make her a safer pilot, and then we’ll move on into more and more ratings in higher performance aircraft.”Dave chuckled, “This is going to cost me a lot, huh?”Ken. “Speak freely, my friend.”“As you know, I have extensive estates in France, but also abroad. I have a large estate in Tuscania, in northern Italy, outside the reach of King Charles. I have a boat waiting for us now, on the Seine. I’ve also bribed the guards to make certain that they are gone for the next hour. Come with me, both of you. Let us leave this place, and you can live the rest of your lives in Italy. There is nothing here for you, but death.”Marguerite perked up excitedly and turned. Finally a traffic cop whistled at us. “This is for drop-offs only,” he said. “Move along.”I waved at the cop as politely as I could. “I hear you,” was the only thing I could say.Chad leaned back and took a deep breath. His eyes had turned red, and his whole face was wet. He blinked and tried to get his bearings. “I wish I didn’t have to deal with this,” he said. “But if I don’t, I could regret it forever.”“I get it,” I said, “and you’re doing the right thing.”Chad sighed, undid his. However it was not the pizza deliveryman it was an unusual looking woman. I say unusual because she was in a black evening gown and carrying her shoes. She told me that she had car trouble and that she needed to use my phone, so of course I let her in.She called but apparently no one was there on a Friday evening. She said that she needed to get cleaned up and asked me where the bathroom was, so I told her. She asked me if I had anything strong to drink and I told her that I didn’t drink. Then.