True, magic saved his legs when nothing else would've. Cha clearly had great aspirations for him, and for whatever reason she helped him, but spending...the rest of his life on the surface seemed too heavy of a cost. Auspus would've already tried to escape, but...He opened his hand and focused. In his cupped palm, a purple flame sprang into being, warm and real. He flicked it back and forth between his fingers, trying to ignore Cha's amused look.I can play along for a while, if it means getting. Finally it dawned and this led to the conversation that so far his brain could not accept, the one that started Ken and I have been chatting and that now he and I want you to divorce me and you then have a few choices: the conversation his fuddled brain not only cant except it`s the one he doesn’t want to even acknowledge.He realised she was on her feet, handing him a list, then through a veil of tears he watched her drive off to work, he being day off today she had given him the conversation. The blindfold came off and there was Jilly standing there holding hir pretty lady stick all by hirself. S/he was wearing the same hot outfit she wore to the sex party at Gigi's."Hey lover!" S/he said. "You didn't fool anyone for one minute. We all know how much you wanted me all to yourself that night. Well now's your chance sugar. So what'll it be?"For me that was an easy no brainer. "There's a couple of things on top in my man bag over there. I know you'll get a kick out of them."I. I didn’t say anything right then but knew from personal experience that the subterfuge worked.May 24We left for the gold mine shortly before dawn, arriving two hours later. The owners were already there, and had the previous crew of miners shackled, standing in the back of wagons. The owners were in the process of warning the new group of slaves what would happen if they misbehaved and were getting ready to hang the slaves who had been there when the deadly explosion occurred.“Stop,” I shouted.