A breathed bottle of fine Italian red awaited them as the waiter bustled with menus, raised the bottle. John cocked his head at Julie and the waiter p...ured a dribble in her glass. She sniffed, tasted, nodded. Glasses were filled and the waiter withdrew. -Slainthe my sweet. Now – after the glasses had kissed lightly – tell me about the inspection? -I … I really don’t know… I, we all, think it went well. But that was after downing a few in the Chip when we’d left school, right enough! The Heidie. " Ah, but I know it's human, I will resist it, then once their General Arron is dead I will shoot it." And you don't know I have already passed the initial bonding stage with a fucking human so I should be able to resist it, Varna thought to herself."After all this time and effort protecting the bloody thing? What if you can't? Varna, we don't understand on what level these changes have been made, we cannot fight what we are. Even you, Varna, cannot deny your Grojan heritage." Don't be. She listened patiently as I went over my list of repairs and told me to bring the bike on over, that they could take care of it. Since I no longer had a truck, I decided to ride it over there and asked if there was someone who could run me back to the house. She told me she would see what she could do. ***** After I checked the oil and water, the bike fired right up. It was about ten miles to where the shop was and I got in no hurry. The motor had great power but the clutch was a little jerky.. "Sharon thanked her, but noted with an inward chuckle that she had waitedto say it until Jack was engaged in conversation elsewhere."Megan seems to have taken to being a big sister," Sharon noted."She was watching me change his diaper this morning, and all of a suddennoticed his thingie. It happened to be hard, and she asked me what it wasand why it suddenly looked like that." Uh oh," Sharon said with a smile."That's just what Jack said."She took a glass of white wine, a light and crisp Pinot.