According to the map most of the mining towns were a day or two apart. I planned on stopping at least half a day's ride away from towns each night. I ...idn't want to tempt fate.I kept up Chandra's training each night. She would need a lot more time to get used to being my partner and I wanted her to have it. The men quickly got discouraged sparring with us, but I explained why it was necessary and that we needed the help. They reluctantly saw the wisdom in it and spurred themselves to put a. There were a dozen men that she could have hit on and taken home, most of them were eagerly trying to catch her eye, but the one man she was drawn to was not. He was aware of her because of the sideways glances he kept making. He was the only man in the club wearing jeans, the rest were all in suits and slacks. His button up was clean and pressed, but there was something dirty about him. Not dirty as he needed to bathe, something dirty as in Miranda knew he would fuck Lewis from her mind. . In all the time she had been here, she had not heard another living soul save for the scratching of rats. Being a Fae, she did not suffer the need to eat as frequently as a creature like a human would, but that was only when she was in her smaller form. Amaryllis had been shopping in a human market when she had been abducted and remained in her transformed state. This lent even more to the confusion of the passage of time. Usually, the change lasted only an hour, but by her estimation, she had. She welcomed me in showing me to her private office and then dissapeared for a couple of minuets leaving me to get out my order forms and product lists. It was only when she came back into the room with a tray of coffee and locked the door behind her that It felt strange, not like the other cliants I had met. She sat in a chair along side of me and we chatted a bit of small talk as she crossed and uncrossed her long shapely legs, her skirt had riden up as she sat down and I could clearly see.