The ghostly wings vanished as I landed in a crouch and turned the ring. I pulled a short sword from over my right shoulder and a handle with blades wi...h my left.I snapped my left hand down and the blades opened into a fan and locked into place. I began to walk in and looked around the dazzling living and sleeping area of the mage. Riches were everywhere, jeweled mage lamps, small animated golden statues, bright silk hangings ... I shook my head as I moved towards the stairs in the center of the. Mileena then proceeded to sneak out of the dungeon and made her way to her personal chambers. As she entered her room, her servant greeted her with surprise, "Mistress Mileena, I heard what happened. I thought you'd been imprisoned." The meekish caramel-skinned woman frantically straightened her skimpy slave garb."Those incompetent fools could never hold me." Mileena grabbed her sais and sheathed them at her waist. "My father has grown too irrational and it's time his reign was put to and. .. Just stay calm... I've alrea-... the... company to come and get you out... within an hour or two... How many... are with you?" There's only two of us... I think she's claustrophobic, though. Can they come any sooner?" What?... I can't hear... they'll be there soon... Just... remain calm." Thank you," the man replied sighing.He backed up from the speaker and turned to the woman clutching him, his upper arm firmly planted between her breasts."Are you okay, now?" he asked her. He received only. Mid-morning and it was starting to heat up, he had already tossed his sweaty T-shirt on the porch A shadow appeared. Angela, or Angie as she wanted to be called, was standing on the grass in a little two-piece bathing suit, dark blue shorts and a white top with red polka-dots. He was starting to regret renting to her and her brother, if that was indeed what he was. ‘Maybe,’ he thought, ‘she’s the beard.’ He smiled at the thought. ‘It made as much sense as anything else that’s gone on around.