"Don't let our size fool you sir," Labo said smoothly, we're mere pups, barely more than a year old." And a pleasure meeting you, wizard Fenthil. Kei ...dded. "Labo and I are both quite interested in the ways of you wizards." You are?" I asked, surprised. "You've never said anything about this to me!" Well, as Labo said," Kei added with a throaty Vulkai chuckle. "We're interested in the ways of wizards. The ways of apprentices? Not so much."Fenthil grinned as he looked at me over the shoulders of. This clown is a novelist, the controller said. Here, with that the image of a book jacket and picture appeared in my brain."Do you have a cell phone?" I asked."Yes, I am speaking on it now," he said."Then turn it around and take a picture of yourself and send it to me. If you can do that and you match the picture I have of you, then I'll meet you." I said."Where did you get a picture of me. You were in my clubhouse and in that room are about a dozen people with cell phones at any given time. Do. 'Where did that little insight come from?' Sue asked with a genuine desire to know.'Just listening to you talk about him, and, just as importantly, about yourself. I might have no experience with women, as you know, ' I added with a grin, 'but I do know people, it's one of my few skills.'After many probing questions by Sue on how I'd reached that conclusion, and my inability to be precise in why, Sue finally agreed that I was right.'I don't know why it took me so long to realise.' Then looking. Dwelling on the past is a sign of weakness in her eyes and in this world there isn’t room for weakness. Tsyr Ker smiles to herself. Her master has patience.And she has to have it or else her plans would never grow to fruition. Nothing brings more of a smile to Tsyr Ker’s face than stretching that patience to its limits. “What graces me with your presence, my master?” she asks without turning.Talilith steps out from the shadows. A crooked smile curves across her face. She plays this game at.