A few of the men raised their drinks and tipped their glasses toward Graham in acknowledgement. He nodded back at them politely as he escorted Sandy t... the far end of the bar.Graham ordered a Chablis for Sandy and Bourbon on the rocks for himself when the bartender arrived to serve them. Taking Sandy's arm, he said, "Why don't I show you our private game room. It's usually only reserved for male members, but tonight's a special occasion, and I'm on the board of regents, so nobody will mind.". Fires at night will be deadly, unless we happen upon a deep cave, and hunting gets scarcer the further north we go. These mountains are avoided for dozens of reasons and you now know some of them," he stated grimly. The gray eyes glanced up and saw a hardening around the bright sapphire orbs gazing down at him with conviction the Gnome had never seen before. In the nearly twenty-four decades the Gnome had lived, he couldn't remember a more stolid young man than the young Gnathar he had picked. Must have been my new neighbor I thought and took the ice bucket into the house.In the kitchen I rinsed the bucket and wiped it dry. Put it in the pantry and when I got out I saw her. She was in her backyard, wearing a white T-shirt and khaki cargo pants. She was moving empty boxes out of the house. She has a bit of a tan, Latina I thought but I was not entirely sure. That must be my new neighbor Angela. I made myself a cup of coffee and sat down on my back deck. Lovely day today. The sun is. I couldn’t pick out things without his approval.”“So, did you get finished?” I asked, trying to sound like it didn’t matter.“Heavens no. Today we just did the bedroom furniture. We’ve got several rooms to go. The only furniture that he wasn’t renting was for his entertainment room.”“So, are you going shopping tomorrow?”“I’m not sure. The new bedroom furniture’s arriving between one and three so we thought that we would take apart his old bed and hang the pictures that we bought.”“Can’t he do.