I stood up and she crossed the room and came into my arms. I hugged and she got up on tip-toe and kissed me. Out in the hall, I told her mother that s...e understood and would try to behave better. The woman thanked me.I went home as fast as I could and got two tired little girls off their thrusting saddles and into a hot bath.The phone rang. "She's run away," said Enid assuming I would recognize her voice. "Took some money. She's wearing Levis and a dark sweater. I think I remember that her. Of course, the originators of our clan are still among us," I told him."Still... !!" he asked in surprise."Yes, my Great Grandmothers are powerful Sorceresses and are several hundred years old," I told him."Several hundred... !!" Yes! Three hundred and thirty-six years to be exact," I told him to a very shocked expression after I did a little quick math. I didn't go into any details however. Sunshine was shocked on hearing this also."But that is secondary. Tell me about the history of the. It's not as if I had any way of finding out, and Lightning himself didn't know. But at the time I didn't know any of that. It was just a pleasure to sit on my friend.When Lightning was ready, we made our way out of the glade toward my home. I wasn't sure this was safe. My Aunt and her family wouldn't scare Lightning — unless Brot had his bow - but hopefully they'd have gone without me. Lightning didn't know the way to his home, and the only hints of how to get to the castle started at my Aunt's. Was she in for a shock!Pete Peterson had taken her straight to his apartment after their late breakfast, without spending too much time at all in conversation. He had simply told her what he desired and went about moving the events of the late morning along at a pace and an agenda of his own determination and his own making. She had lost control early on and had never regained it over the past hour or so.Irina had been somewhat awed by Peterson's take-charge attitude. He was not necessarily.