You return his handshake in equal measure."Oh, please call me William. 'Lord Bardolf' and 'Sir' are just too stuffy. I promised you tea, so let's go t... the parlour." He heads out of the room."Call me 'John'. 'Mr. Doe' sometimes sounds like I'm a school teacher."You both chuckle.As you walk through the house, you see paintings and sculptures conservatively worth several million pounds.In the parlour, you sit across from William, and he rings a small bell. A butler, a man about the same age as. "We are not fairies."The rest of the creatures looked just as offended, so he quickly said, "I'm sorry. What are you then?" We're sylphs. Fairies are snooty girls with pointed ears." I didn't mean to insult you. I didn't know."The purple-winged one turned to her companions and said, "See. I told you it was nice. It took away the nasty things, and it apologizes."He couldn't help it. The sylph was hovering at just the right distance to let him behold her in all her glory. She had perky little. . I'd like to ask her out and stuff." Okay," I glanced at him."Yeah, anyway she told me she liked me too, but um..." Josh shrugged. "She's totally lesbian, dude." That's what she said?" I gave him a sympathetic look."Yeah, well, not like that exactly, but that's what she meant," Josh took a deep breath. "But she said she liked me," he smiled, just a little. "That's good, right?" his voice was tinged with excitement."Yeah, I guess," I shrugged. "She is your cousin though, Josh. She's supposed to. We own 8 offices in the wing and have converted one into a makeshift workout room with a treadmill and some dumbells. I wanted to walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes or so to get my heart rate going. When I walked into the workout room, our office admin had apparently had the same idea because she was jogging on the treadmill. Rather than sit in there like a creep and watch her jog, I decided I would wait until she was done to start my workout. She usually exercises a little at the end of.