"This is Ewa. Come, let's get something warm in all of you." When we heard there was a King, well, you can imagine our joy and surprise. We had heard ...f the loss of King Lawenza, and his sons, before we were cut off from the city. It was chaos, let me tell you."James nodded as Ludoslaw took another sip of his warm drink. It was something made from the bark of a tree, the exact details James had not bothered to learn. It seemed to have caffeine and tasted good, which was all a drink of this sort. At that moment I realized I’d passed by his bedroom hundreds of times but never gone in until now.“Does there have to be a reason?” I said coyly.“No ... it’s just I...”It was fun to watch him stutter and stammer a bit. He always came across so confident and self-assured ... But not now.“I guess I’ve thought about this for a while ... about ... you know ... being with you,” he said.I slowly ran my hands through his sparse chest hair. “For how long?”“The past sixteen years.”I giggled. “Really,. “What Jason has shown us in his work is beyond the level of discovery than any single professor at this university in a lifetime.“He has derived at least two, and perhaps three full branches of mathematics with all the theorems and proofs. I look forward to the other branches and I am sure all of us are waiting to consider the implications. Had he derived one of these branches of mathematics he would have been awarded a professorship at this university. The fact that he concurrently solved two. But I’m afraid we’d had a couple of run-ins with each other since he’d taken up his chosen profession. ‘The old girl says there is no way you left your flat between eight o’clock when you got home and two in the morning when she went to bed. Does the old girl stay up until all the neighbours are in bed?’ ‘Fucked if I know, but she likes her bit of gossip. I suppose you got the story of her in number 22. The old witch reckons she’s on the game whilst her old man is at sea.’ ‘Yeah, I got chapter.