”He grinned.“She’s my niece, but she’s still brilliant.”I shrugged “Anything else?”He started to shake his head, but stopped abruptly. �...�Pogo, I can smell it. They’re just going to keep doing this to people, it’ll keep escalating until somebody gets killed. Somebody innocent.”I nodded.“I think they might’ve picked me up at the ATM on 9th Street by the Laundromat. They knew I had cash, and that’s the only place I can think of they might have known that from.”He was uncomfortable telling me and it. I fear you may have forgotten much that I taught you those six decades ago." Frelic blinked in confusion, "Six decades, m'lady? But, it has only been two years since..." She shushed him by placing a finger to his lips, "For you, it has been a mere two years, but have you forgotten the time differential between the Mortal and Immortal Realms?" Frelic nodded as he recalled, "Ah yes, m'lady. 'Tis thirty to one, so that one year on Niath is thirty years here." "Correct, my pet. Your negligence. .it was our secret. Go and do something else? Not after all that work.....so we stumbled into an empty silence. I had no ideas worth using...but he did. ...."Let's kiss" he said. Just like that. No hesitation, embarrassment or uncertainty. Like it was the most natural and obvious next step.I think I was a little shocked at first, and didn't really know how to respond. I didn't say no though and he took the initiative and moved to sit next to me. There was nothing overly sexual about the kisses. "Appalled at their behaviour Erin was having none of that and she did what she remembered from her self-defence courses, she kneed the bigger one in the balls.He recoiled in pain and turned away but his mate reacted by turning sideways and wrapped his arm around her neck. Passersby just stared at their phones, seemingly oblivious to the abuse being meted out to the young girl."For that," the guy with his arm around her said, "There'll be no phone." Erin was pinned hard into the guys headlock.