“Alice?”Alice had been watching. She was on the spot with a cold, damp towel and a glass of tepid water.“Hi ... I’m Alice,” Alice said. “I...��m Abbie’s sister.” She noticed ‘that’ look. “I grew up with Abby ... she’s the only sister I’ve got.“Take it slow with the water ... little sips. Abby? Brandy?”I fetched. Daddy keeps a bottle of Richard Hennessy for occasions. I figured this was one. A splash in a snifter. Mrs Morris had an educated nose.“Oh my god...” A sip. “That’s possibly the best brandy. "The mare is having some pain. We have been monitoring her, and have come to check that she is okay. She will be having her foal shortly, and really needs to be in a nice warm and secure barn," Cessair told him. The General heard this also"How can you know this. Where were you previously?" he asked."We were at the tailor shop, but have been monitoring her since we left Johns Creek, and can tell when she is having problems," Dealla told him."They are some of our healers," Seamus added."Could you. All the barmaids and waitresses were new since I'd last been here, and I saw Trunk perk up immediately. One of them I recognized immediately though, it was Spider and Sunshine's daughter, Moonbeam. She was a year older than I was, and one of my early crushes before being shipped off to the Academy. Her eyes crinkled and she smiled sweetly when I introduced River as my intended. They crinkled in a completely different manner when I introduced Trunk as my best friend and partner."Trunk, this is. The seats here were far more comfortable than those in the main terminal. No one else in the room seemed to mind, either. After countless hours in similar rooms across the globe, he had reached the cynical conclusion that a first class airport lounge had the potential to bring out the ostentatious side of a nun. Women opened and closed their flashy designer handbags with blatant flicks of their wrists, no doubt hoping the overhead lighting would send rainbows flying from their jewels. Men’s.