She was blonde, her long, straight hair hanging down to her waist. Her accent dripped of Southern charm."And you are?" Barker, sir. It's my name and...my job." She lifted the tent flap slightly. "Would you and the lady care to go in?"Sue glared at Harry. "Oh, pay the girl her money, and let's get this over with." She reached for the flap, but it seemed to be stuck on something.Harry pulled out his wallet and paid. The flaps slid open, and they went inside the tent.Somehow, there seemed to. Mark didn’t plan to call girls his own age Ma’am. He’d have no problem saying it to women though. Tucker still hadn’t been registered in school. He was looking forward to it but he was very advanced academically and would probably have been disappointed with a country high school like the one Betty’s kids attended.“I expect you to be on your best behavior. I will give you time to yourselves to do some personal shopping at the end as long as you are cooperative. I think you will enjoy the treats. Even I could see theywere ancient. I confronted the headmistress about them, demanded to knowwhy an Englishwoman was running a school over here that had stuff in itsbasement that belonged in a museum. She told me she was a collector ofallegedly magical artefacts and that she set up the school to takeadvantage of one which turned out to possess real magic." The stone statuette." I didn't believe her when she told me what it could do - who would? -and that she ran the school to turn criminals. "Yes, I know that."Aesia's voice cracked as she rose and went to kneel by her mother, taking her hands. Tears formed in her eyes. "Mother, none of us knew about a plot to kill the League leader. One of the aides had been a hurried replacement for Teresian who suddenly took ill. Unfortunately, he had a bomb surgically implanted. We believe he planned to detonate it once the negotiations had started. League security discovered the bomb so he tried to kill the members of our peace delegation." She.