" Roger! I didn't think you were comfortable out here." I'm surviving so far. I haven't had much experience but I did have a good instructor for the b...ief time I got to see him. A perk of some work experience." Well you sat that canter okay." It was far bouncier before." You just need to stand in the stirrups more and adjust yourself to the rhythm of the trot." It doesn't bother you? Bouncing around bareback?" I was being deliberately naïve."Roger honey, I have got what, around 300 kilos of. " Having, seen neither hide nor hair of him in over two years!" Ryoko's voice resumed."He barely even greeted me, just ordered me to my rest chamber.Saying I would soon need my strength! All too soon I would know exactly what he meant!" No!" Ryoko uttered. Feeling a nameless dread at what she would soon see."You must..." Ena told her gently. "All of it!" He awoke me the next morning, though I suppose that's a silly notion. Having neither night nor day within the depth of space. Far from dire. I waswearing shorts and the seat was a shock on the back of my legs.A few seconds later, a rather podgy, florid faced man came out."Hello, nice to see you again and you must be Mark?"I nodded shyly."OK come in and let's have a chat."We followed Mr Rogers into his office and after much scraping of chairs,sat down.Mr Rogers shuffled some papers and then frowned."Won't be a moment." MANDY." He shouted.There was a faint scrape of a chair and then the door opened."I wish you would use the phone. I must say the place looked fine as far as I was concerned. ‘I’m Rowena Talbot, by the way,’ the girl said. ‘You can call me Rowe. What’s your name,’ she asked. ‘George, and you can call me George,’ I replied heavily. She rose and waddled over to the kitchen and looked in. ‘Not bad,’ she commented. ‘By the way, something’s burning on the stove.’ ‘Oh God, I’ve forgotten all about the meal I was cooking.’ I rushed into the kitchen and retrieved the pan, just about saving the contents from total.