‘You’re going after a mage. If she finds you first, you’re probably going to need every spell-caster you can get. We’re not going to find anyt...ing we can’t run through with a blade.’ ‘I like your confidence, Devine. And if you happen across any of those half-mages?’ She shrugged. ‘We’re nimble, we’ll just dodge until the bitches get tired, then run them through. I don’t expect it to be that difficult.’ ‘You wouldn’t.’ Neral looked out upon her troops, measuring what might be needed, looking. ” Once she explained it, in a screwed up way, what she said make sense… even if it was in a strangely fucked up way. “Patty wasn’t like everyone else. He suffered from a Sexual Aversion Disorder. That’s why he didn’t want to make love to me. It’s also why he gave me the birth control pills without telling me. He had trouble dealing with it himself and was deathly afraid if we had a child, that child would be cursed with his affliction. Patty was still a human being and like everyone else. You are so pretty and seeing you like that just about blew me away. It was killing me" Hold on, are you reading my thoughts?" Yes."Zoe gasped in astonishment once more. Then the guilt she had felt earlier about having sexual thoughts about her father returned ten times stronger. Had he heard those thoughts?"Yes, Zoe," he said. "I heard those and the ones about Tom Ferguson. I know you are feeling guilty about it but believe me those kind of thoughts are perfectly natural. You don't love anyone. ”Jessie Harper started to waved out across the food court of the Redsands Supermall as Kate Terrence’s eyes followed along to where Jessie was pointing. Kate then began to wave out too as those across the way spotted them both and began to wave back. Before long Jessie and Kate were joined up with a bunch of friends that they had known for many years and had been meeting up regularly like this for at least twelve months or more now - ever since their respective parents had deemed them each old.