‘Hi Charlie… yeah, it’s going fine. Yeah… Hey, look the reason I’m calling is the twins I talked to you yesterday about. ‘Yes, well look C...arlie, I think perhaps I may have been a little out of…,’ he paused a moment when I jumped up out of my chair and leaned over his desk. ‘To be honest Charlie, I was way out of line there, and the girls, they were fine. Yes, it was all my fault. ‘I’d appreciate it if you would give them another chance. ‘You will? Great and I’m sorry to screw things up for. "Well, as it happens, Melissa, this is your lucky day. I'm a sponsor. So is Ayumi, in fact, but she has her slots filled, by your boss and his daughter, actually. I'd say that you passed your road-test, which this was. Congratulations, if you want the spot, you're my first concubine. How does that sound to you? Oh, and in case you didn't figure it out, Ayumi and I are co-sponsors, so you'll get plenty of booty from her ... and her uncle, if you accept, right, babe?" Dan grinned as he ate."Damn. He was far from his original group who had stayed in their position, shields raised to create a barrier and were currently engaged with the group belonging to the two men laying at his feet. In the distance the other two teams were fighting similar battles but more spread apart. For whatever reason the two groups had not been given shields this time, so their fights were quick and bloody. Titan watched as two of the Kasim giants fought shoulder to shoulder, decimating the competition with their. And maybe that timeno-one will be there to save him.I suppose in the wash-up, as I lie on my bed restless, I'm alsodisappointed that in discovering the path back to being Anthony wasforever lost, that this so called promised contentment Beth and Caitlinseemed certain awaited me was debunked.I wasn't at peace as a result of this newfound permanency.I was just more disheartened than ever.Maybe that is to come, if I ever get the wheels back on my cart.What I decided on the trip home though is that.