In the past several years, Tiffany had brought Santa Claus into town in the Christmas parade, and two years ago, when Shack had her first litter of ni...e pups, she'd named them after Santa's reindeer, in hopes of being able to run the training sled down Main Street yelling, "On Dasher! On Dancer!," and so forth. It hadn't worked out; Cupid had gotten loose and been hit by a car, and Rudolph and Blitzen hadn't acted like runners, so had been sold with a recreation team."George in the lead, of. Iptomas was so intrigued that he felt he was not in danger so this was obviously not a trap. Deciding to find out what was going on he appeared before her."Why are you crying?" Iptomas asked.His sudden appearance startled her bringing her mind back to the world around her."Where is your Goddess Demeter? I thought she was with you." Aphrodite asked hurt."You were spying on us?" Iptomas asked taken aback. He must have been too preoccupied to notice her presence.Aphrodite nodded replying, "But you. He had two projects started and, to him, they both had top priority. On the one hand, he really needed to get the house or cabin or whatever you would call it completed so he and Beth had a warm dry place to live during the winter. That project would take several days more work if he did it like he originally planned. He also really needed to get the dam completed and his generator set up so he could have some electric power. Of course he couldn’t complete the house until he had the power; well. Since it was already late, I had a lot of catching up to do, considering it was the first night I was actually legal. Of course, the pace I was keeping caught up to me and I couldn't make it home on my own. One of my co-workers, Lexi, played the role of the caregiver and brought me back to her place to spend the night. The next morning, I woke up cuddled up beside her in bed. She was still sleeping at this point but I couldn't help to notice how beautiful she was. She had brown shoulder length.