Ainsley came in and shook hands with each of them, her whole manner subdued. She’d done an excellent job with her makeup, but Nick could tell she wa... tired now that he knew to look for signs. A big part of him felt terrible for putting her through the last night, but a smarter part knew she’d been right yesterday afternoon. Nick’s desire to make pretty girls like him would get him in a lot of trouble if he didn’t learn to control his instincts. Her reward for pointing that out was that he would. It did. After a while the shakes stopped and I got up and walked home, I slept till the next day and didn't even here my husband come home that night. When I awoke he was gone and the shakes started again. So I Walked up to the store thinking of how I was going to kick this habit without my straight laced husband knowing.When I got to the store I walked in and there was the biker sitting there, in the same seat, so I sat down next to him and ordered an ice tea. I looked at him and asked thanks. The other passengers had chipped in and helped us load it. I don’t think they had realised I was a mage until they saw me doing the spells on the coach.One of the men, called Reilly, volunteered to hold the hose and fill the water barrels. Reilly kept looking in the barrel, he was surprised by how long it took to fill them both. When I came back with the last of feed pellets to load, he eventually asked me, “My Lord, how much water does this barrel take?”I scratched my head. I did a rough. Three members of the group broke away from the fight and ran at Talia. The two in the lead waved large broadswords over their heads while the third, with a shield and sword, lagged a couple of strides behind them. Talia's shield came up above eye level as she took one step to her right, then lunged forward on her left foot and stabbed her nearest assailant in the throat. He fell at her feet and she turned to her left, blocked the other sword with her shield and stabbed its wielder in the side.