I’m sorry we pushed both of you so hard on the issue of sleeping together. We shouldn’t have done that.”“It wasn’t just you, Mrs. Mills. My ...ad talked to me, too.”“We probably should have left you two to sort things out rather than push you away. I am sorry.”“I accept your apology. But how do I help Jocelyn?”“I don’t know. Give her some time, I guess. She’s seeing Doctor Henderson again tomorrow.”“And her decision to leave West Monroe?”“She’s adamant about going to Purdue and nothing her father. I started thinking a little more introspectively. It had only been a week; could we successfully hide our relationship? Could we hide this ‘us’ forever? I’ve already had, at times, an overwhelming urge to yell it out to the world. I wondered why what we were doing was considered so bad anyway? I thought that true love was always supposed to be a good thing?Yet, I knew that society would freak out if they found out about us. Our friends would, and our parents would probably have a meltdown. I. Again Morgana was simply waiting for me to figure it out and enjoyed herself immensely at my frustrated efforts to do so."I'll set up a meeting with the Section heads to go over the audit tomorrow, John," Morgana said. "Please attend and be prepared to answer questions." Yes, my Mage," I replied.The following day I sat to one side of the conference table in Morgana's office as the Section heads went head to head over the audit proposals. It was fairly obvious that my talks with the various. It was savage brutal warfare. The war didn’t last but a few months. The creatures of the northern lands aren’t strategists. They usually fight one another to gain control of tribes, not plan an all out war. So, order began to fall apart amongst the different tribes. They fought amongst themselves over who took what trophies of war. That was the beginning of their end. The ogre king himself was a rare creature amongst his kind. Wise, smart, cunning and brutal. He wanted to gather all his might.