"Two! You and Christi! But I don't love her anymore." I said, as I leaned over and kissed her. We went into the den, played with Jay for a while, watc...ed television until ten o'clock, and then went to bed. We lay silently for fifteen minutes or so."Jay?" Yes." Why are you careless when it comes to women?" I think it goes back to being hurt. I suppose it is my way of getting revenge. However, I am not like that anymore. You have taken that away from me. I mean that in a wonderful way." I'm glad. ” Sandrine laughed, and I’m glad my little jest had worked to redirect her. She pushed at me playfully. I made a point to admire her jersey. I spent a few minutes examining it front, back, and sleeves, looking at all the autographs on it. “Stars win the Stanley Cup this year and that’ll be a real collector’s item. How’d you get it?” “Well, the team had a silent auction. You know, a charity thing? They had one of these and I put a bid in on it, but got beaten out. So, I bought a jersey from the. Well, to keep it short, I destroyed millions in damages and several pieces of evidence in that fight, but I survived, and lived to get the ranting from Mr. H. Boy, that was quite exhiliarating though! You're probably wondering about the lady I was conversing with. She wasn't my wife, take that out of your head. Just some 'usual' who wanted to have some fun with a well-to-do guy, and if I could catch the attention of a beauty like her, then I valued my personal appearance high; even though I. .. unsettling ... at times, unique isn’t a word I use often. How you are learning how to fight, on the other hand, is as normal as normal can be.”She gave Kal a predatory grin, “Enough about that. I won again, and I want my prize, but not out here in the snow. Since we are going inside, I’m calling an end to the sparring for today. I figure we can work on forms later before you go home and maybe get some studying in too, now that you can use your runes to get back and forth to your farm.” Ikuno.