He was neither sullen nor self-pitying. He poured a generous portion of the smelly, brown liquid into his glassand settled back to build up the courag... to drink it.Then, Shelly was at his side, a glass in her hand, "Buy a lady a drink?"she asked.Gary reached beside him where he had tucked the bottle of whiskey andpoured, "Say when..." The glass was over half full when she finally said, "When."She moved to the chair adjacent to her father's, sat and downed thewhiskey in one fluid gulp. Gary. This castle was both fortress and palace, yet, in truth, neither. Built over more than 500 years the castle was more like a small city than a castle, and rather than a palace, it was in truth a university.What did they teach there? Adventuring, the ancient and honorable profession of mages and kings, bishops and crooks, the princes of the earth and its ambitious peasants.The school has been founded 250 years ago by the last of the Elven Kings of the Old Alliance, when he finally realized that. I started kissing her upper chest all while my hands were caressing her long sexy back. I put my hands around her small face and started kissing her passionately. We were kissing for a long time but we were not having long kisses, rather we kissed small kisses continuously.She started breathing heavily, She now started feeling my body and her hands were sliding all over my body. But she eventually stopped when her right hand found the bulge in my pants. As her hand was caressing my cock, it. I'm not the Devil,Ralph. As I told you, my name is Basil, not Beelzebub, Lucifer, OldScratch, Old Nick, or whatever else he might be calling himself now,"said Basil. "What I practice is a science of a sort, not metaphysics.We step through the mirror portal on one side. On the other side, westep out and become who or what we would have become in that world."His smile widened. "You watched my arrival through the mirror. Didyou smell any brimstone as I arrived, Ralph?" No, I didn't. If you're not.