I think I ought to be able to climb this, and I ought to be able to protect it, but nothing in life is certain, and as I approach the base of the crag...some five hundred feet above the valley floor, the uncertainty increases. My throat is tight and my mind seems locked in a loop. My speech is infrequent and monosyllabic. In the forefront of my consciousness are the things I’ve heard said about the crux pitch: ‘Seconding the second pitch I did think ‘Shit me! This is pretty sustained for an HVS!”. She was so tired of everything being frilly and pink! She was an excellent gymnast, dancer, and had a 4.0 grade point average. But all the boys ever noticed, indeed all the males she interacted with on a daily basis ever noticed, were her face and figure."Sometimes I wish I had been born male instead of female", she ranted to herself, "Then I could be the big football star and show the Coach, the Principal, my Dad and every other chauvinistic, pig headed, jerk in this world!" It apparently. Her sense of dedication had been secured through service to a Lady who caused both joy and dread in her innocent life for as did the winds sweeping over the English countryside Lydia’s persona twisted like the vane above the ramparts. Pointing south, those breezes were soft and gentle, but pointing north they were cold and brutal. Annalette had been subjected to both. First to the Castle stores then to the scullery, Annalette instructed their watches that there be wood and a vessel of hot water. “They need more stability, and they need you around. But if you can’t play as big a part as you might wish, then we have to find a different way of providing that.”As I continued fighting my fish, I could almost taste the bait, hook carefully hidden within it, in my mouth. It was a surreal moment.“And what might a ‘different way’ be?”“We were thinking that James could adopt them; and before you go off the deep end, think about it. It makes sense. He’s there for them every day, and together he.