When the rosters expanded, I was brought up and given playing time. My fielding continued to be good and my hitting suffered an initial drop and then ...icked back up. I realized that I might be up to let other teams look at me with a trade in my future. I spent my time as profitably as I could. After an initial drop, my hitting average recovered. I think I had proven I could hit major league pitching both for average and for power.At the end of the season, the manager called me into his office.. He never considered Yren’s blades might be getting a reputation far beyond the little town.Ardt scoffed incredulously at the foolish armor Yren’d made – armor, Yren had said, made for personal use. Foolishness and a waste of good money; only Knights wore anything more than studded armor – chain mail at the very most. Ardt couldn’t talk sense to him, though. He couldn’t deny the young man, either; it was his money, after all.Honestly, most of the money coming in was from Yren’s work. Ardt still. " Fiore seemed to pull a saw from nowhere,causing her volunteer assistant's eyes to reach the approximate size ofsaucers. Waving the tool at the audience, Fiore positioned herselfbehind the box. "Watch! As we double the fun!" And with that, shebegan sawing in exaggerated motions.When the magician was done sawing, the audience watched as her newlybisected assistant was moving her head back and forward, confused asever. Fiore spun both halves of the box completely around, so that. It makes the staff less responsive to his needs. And here is the customer now. Just do whatever he wants."Laurine struggled against the ropes holding her spread out on the roof of the car. Do what he wanted? She couldn't move a muscle, much less resist the man's intentions, whatever they might be.She'd heard of some strange sexual hang-ups since she began work for Love, Inc., but nothing compared to this. And she had the idea that there was more to it than just staking her out mother-naked in.