There was the staff and dagger and then sword and bow. It was six long years in many places where men and even armies died. I finally walked away with...a couple of very heavy pack saddles filled with jewels and treasure. The large city I went to was inland beside a large river.I led a horse through the wide gate and nodded to the guards watching everyone enter. I had a lot of time to think about what I was going to do, first was to rent a room. I was able to get a large attic room in one of the. Maybe I was just a jealous wife, but the only word that I could find to describe her was “bimbo.” When I walked in, she was sitting at her desk doing nothing but filing her nails.I walked up to her and asked if Jake was busy.“Do you have an appointment?” she asked.“No, I don’t need one,” I said.“Mr. Tapper doesn’t see anyone without an appointment,” she said with a snotty attitude.“Not even his WIFE?” I asked as I strode past her desk, walking right into Jake’s office, ignoring her shocked. Her absence explained his poor sleep.He went out of the bedroom in search of her. He found her in the media room watching video tapes from the project. She was watching the tape of his first time with Bambi. She was frowning at the screen."What are you doing?" I'm watching the videos from the first few days of the project."He remembered quite vividly his first time with Amber. He hoped that she hadn't watched it, but based on the way that she was acting it was highly unlikely."Oh." It was kind. Perhaps.Others, mostly the farmers, felt that the peace was perhaps nothing more than the deadening effect of the relentless snow, falling day after day, suffocating everything but the will to live, to survive.Perhaps.So the Vangon farmers continued to farm, or at least did what they could against the freezing rains, frosts, the short days and the long nights of winter. Meantime, snug in their workshops, the leather-workers and metal-workers and sword-smiths and all the other artisans and.