It was dark. I entered and closed the door quietly. I expected to hear your sweet voice, but the room was silent. I felt around on the bed hoping to t...uch your foot, your leg, or any part of your body that I so longed for. Disappointedly, all I felt was the bedspread. I opened the curtains to let a little light in. I saw a note! "Baby: I've been here, but only to leave this paper. Baby, Please take off all of your clothes and sit in the desk chair. When I open the door, close your eyes until I. Early bedtime was in my best interest. A sober one at that. Not that I didn’t take a shot of good rye whisky to help me sleep.After our mini vacation, I summoned Mage Evenglow, checked on her status and asked if she had any requests. Her response was typically. “Additional Mages to help.” After agreeing, I summoned Mage Urla Kilnsheer and two apprentices, all three female. Drawing Ally aside I mentioned that she might want to swap one of her boys for one of the Urla’s girl apprentices in the. As he shook his head, Ephus saw that he had his hand around the wrist of the woman.She snarled then lashed out at him. “Let me go you vile piece of filth. I will not yield to you nor any other!”“Yield?” Ephus stated shocked. “Why would I want you to yield to me? Are you not the living aspect of the sword?”“Bah! You really are an idiot and a fool; I am not an aspect as you call it. I AM the sword. Though you have the power godling, I cannot accept you.”For some strange reason, Ephus thought. "But I don't understand your attachment to the fucking thing, Varna." Honestly? I don't either, but until we can find a way of getting that detonator off of Sisanna we are stuck with her I'm afraid. But either way her presence no longer has any bearing on our being hunted by every fucking bounty hunter, lowlife, and law keeper in the Grojan Empire, or what is left of it."So we have to find somewhere we can hide for a while until the initial hunt for us dies down and things become forgotten..