"Well said," he offered."I can't wait to get back down to the training grounds where disputes are not settled with rumors and innuendo," Jorgarn conti...ued. "If Fieth talks badly about Renoit, they get out the sparring swords and go at it. If he is malicious, he feels the birch rod. If he is egregious, he packs his gear and leaves." I hear Bralan plans to join the Guard next year anyway," Fieth said to change the subject because he could see Jorgarn getting angry, never a good thing in his. The girls and I talking and Catherine in the rear. A brief stop for lunch and some planning. And then more walking. Diana takes longer this evening to find us a camp. She claims that she doesn't know the territory as well. As we sit down to dinner I ask the girls if anything looked familiar. They all answer no.I notice that Alys is not looking well. So I sit by her to talk and take her measure.Alys, how are you feeling? I ask her, I am hoping that she will give an honest answer, so I refrain. She claimed she had changed, but I want to keep her on a tight rein until she has proved that.”“I see. You HAVE changed, my sweet. You are much more mature in everything you do and say. Although at first I was apprehensive about your commitment ceremony, you seem to have blossomed with it, much to my surprise.”“I hadn’t really noticed, Daddy. The ceremony was just formalising our pre-existing life together. We had been living together as a loving family before that, including sex. It was Reg. .. and talk."Roberta reacted to the word "play" much differently than Jeff had meant it. She'd tried that same exact word with her husband one night, when he was hunched over the computer, researching a company's stock value."Come on, baby," she said, standing behind him and running her hands down onto his chest. "You've been in school long enough. It's time for recess... time to play." In a minute," he'd said, ignoring her hands. "You go get ready and I'll be there in a minute."He'd never.