.. only human. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Ready to go?" I asked her while she put her se...tbelt on. "Let's roll," she said catching her breath, her petite, youthful frame shivering off the morning's chill. "I'll need you to navigate since I've never been where we're headed," I said pulling onto the road. "You can count on me," she answered, mustering a resolute expression and pairing it with a salute. Off we went to Amy's High-School.. ‘Henriette is a nice person.’ ‘Of course, you’d think she was nice, I wouldn’t be surprised to see you follow in her footsteps…’ ‘What do you mean by that?’ ‘Nothing.’ ‘No, Anna. You’ll tell me,’ I was getting angry, offended by the judgmental tone of her voice. ‘Bina, that’s enough for now,’ Anna waved her hands, as if she was shooing a fly. ‘You’re just jealous of Henriette,’ I accused her, stepping down from the chair to the floor. ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about.’ ‘Henriette’s a. They also protect Princess Royal Jessin, Emir Grigo and, I think, Hegemon Nild as well as Voice of Truth Aramissa.”“Isn’t that a little odd, one company protecting the Heads of State in differing Realms?”“Part of their contracts means they will not under any circumstances betray or work against the contract. It means if you want to get at Amantil you can’t hire Kilios,” I chuckled.“And Amantil couldn’t hire Kilios to get at Jessin ... not that she would.”“That’s right. As far as I’m aware the. I’ll help.’ Soon we were busy stashing the goodies away. We didn’t say much as we did it, just worked together efficiently. As if we’d been married for years. I pulled out a long wooden board from one of the bags, perhaps four inches wide, about twenty inches long, solid wood, with a rounded handle. ‘Just what is this now?’ Julia was always buying things we didn’t need. She was bending down to put stuff in the bottom shelf of the freezer, and straightened up to look at what I was holding. ‘A.