We can't make plans when you want to wait until the last minute to arrange things. We can't all wait on your schedule, because there wouldn't be time ...o get everything done if we did." You're pushing me again, Joyce. You and Mama both. The more you do it, the less chance you have of ending up with what you want. In about one more minute, I'm going to just tell you to forget this thing with Brenda. If I get mad enough about this, you can also forget about us going off to college together." I. We would like to take lots of photos of you. We are not professional photographers. They would be for our own private use and we’d never show them to anyone.”“Hmmm, I’d have to think about that. I get off in half an hour or so, or as soon as the evening shift waitress gets here.”“What do you make per hour here?”“I clear $10 per hour plus tips.”“What if we paid you $50 for an hour of your time?”“I could really use the money. As you’ve already seen, I’m too broke to buy underwear!” She giggles. Enlisting as soon as he was old enough, even though there had been no war to fight, his natural drive had boosted him up through the ranks with a speed and steadiness that had surprised even himself. By the age of seventeen he lead his own squad. By age twenty, a full company of the army's best heeded his orders. Indeed, the only cloud hanging over his army career took the form of his elder brother Barrad.Barrad Dain: the black sheep of the Dain family. A year older, he had always been bigger,. Our attention turned to the other side of the table where Ian was setting up the board. He had also brought a clock in with him and a chess notation pad. He tore a sheet off and offered it to me. I shook my head. “You don’t mind if I do, do you?”I shook my head. “No, you go ahead.”“We normally play thirty-five moves in seventy-five minutes and then fifteen minutes to finish – that okay with you?”I nodded as Maria snuggled closer to me. Ian picked a piece from each colour and moved his hands.