Well, he must've heard me because after playing around with $30 bucks in change, the machine started making all kinds of noises and lights started bli...king on and off and then quarters just started spilling out all over the place! So fast I tried to catch them in the plastic cup, they were overflowing the tray! ! "Thank you Elvis! "I squealed with delight!The old lady next to me in the polyester pantsuit just sniffed and gave me a dirty look. But the cocktail waitress came up to me and gave me. “What is wrong with you? You’ll never master the Cat Fist if you don’t do the training! Quit acting like some scared little girl.”“I ain’t scared of nothing, you stupid old fart! And I’m not a girl!”*********************************************************Yet more years later. The man is dragging the boy, now fifteen years old, away from a vacant field.“It’s been three days, idiot! If that boy was going to get here for your man-to-man fight he would have been here by now. Quit acting like a. A person could make a request to another Noble to intervene in a matter between the requester and the 2nd Noble. If the Noble granted the request, the requester would transfer their allegiance to the new Noble, and the old Noble could not act against them without violating the Empire’s laws.This was rarely requested, and usually having one or more of your subjects actually succeed in petitioning for a Right of Protection was a sign that things weren’t good in your area, and usually would be. ”“No, it doesn’t. You’ll tell me if you think I’m teasing too much or crossing a line?”“I don’t think you would cross any lines. Would you REALLY have slid your hand inside my sweatshirt?”“No, of course not. That’s not teasing; that’s assault.”“Which shows my faith in you is justified.”There was a knock at the door, and before she turned to open it, Clarissa leaned forward and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek.“All yours!” Clarissa said to Angie. “I’ll collect him at breakfast!”Angie and I went.