Gizol spat a glob of blood on the dusty stone under him and groaned in pain. Only Ragnar still stood, but his shield had turned black from magical fir... and his face was grimacing in pain. Silke's magical daggers were still embedded in the Lich's skull, but the thief herself was crumpled up in an unnatural position on the floor - both her spine and neck obviously broke. The other three members of the group had been killed: one melted by a cloud of acid, another burned to a crisp and the third. Do you work for IBE, Ed?” asked Tina. “Yes, I’m in charge of product development for the new line. I’m surprised we haven’t met before.” stammered Ed, trying to regain control of himself. “Well,” said Tina, “I’m pretty new to the company. In fact, I’m kinda new to New York. My daughter and I only moved here two months ago from Minnesota.” “Oh, you’re married,” said Ed, disappointed. “No, my. And then Heather said something he would never forget, “So do you want too?”Stephen looked at her. “Want too?”She just stared at him, and then raised her eyebrows once while biting her upper lip.“Really?” he said quietly.“Yeah,” she said. She was talking quietly now too and looked back to the stair case. “It looks like you could relieve yourself. And I could do with a quick fix, too.”Breathing hard now Stephen said, “Fuck yeah I do.”She laughed at his enthusiasm. “Ok. There are some rules. “OK.”On entering the house mum greeted Mario with open arms, one thing I forgot to warn him about was mum’s interrogation. She always wanted to know everything about people. I guess that is how she judged people. My sister with her two boys came around, we all sat down for a meal, mum made her speciality tonight, meatballs (Keftedes) everyone’s favourite. After eating, all the guys went to the living room. My sister’s boys asked dad if they could play a bit on their PlayStation on the big TV..