She said the roads were horrible and the snow plows were having trouble keeping up with all the snow.Mom usually gets home around 5p.m. and it was now...6 and I was begining to worry. I was watching the news when the door flew open and mom crashed through the door. She was covered in snow as she shivered and shook closing the door behind her. She was dressed in a long winter jacket but only a dress ,nylons and high heeled boots that came up to just below her knees underneath.I told her that I. I remember helping her out with things I could around the house like cutting her grass and things like that, about 2 miles from our house their was a old mill with a water wheel, A lot of the k**s hung out their, it was kind of a party place, I had told Brenda I was going on Friday and she started to ask a lot of questions about it, we decided to go down and check it out, one day during the week we took off and went to show her where it was, their was Brenda, me and two other guys and one of. Her modest apartment had one necessary feature, secure rooftop access. Not long after dark, the trap door opened and an older woman, gracefully descended closing it behind her.“What’s so urgent, Kate?”“There is an intruder in the forest near the mouth of the river. A young mage with heavy martial training and a lot of emotional issues. He is a mage of at least fourth tier if not fifth. In two days, he moved at least eight large trees after trimming the branches and bark then cutting them to. “Hello.”“Virgil listen carefully. The house is empty. Luca and a couple guys are going somewhere. Kay, I and Sal are going to see the remains of the restaurant. I don’t know what they are up to, but I figured I would let you know.”Virgil was quiet for a second. “This might be a good thing.”“What?”“Try and keep in touch Connie. You are doing excellent.”“I can’t wait to get away from here. Kay is driving me crazy with all her love-sick emotions. I can almost puke at her goody, goody.