‘Grace?’ I hollered before she got the door shut but got no response. I was stunned. What the hell had she done? Collapsing in a kitchen chair I p...t my head in my hands as tears began to slide down my cheeks. I couldn’t believe what I was thinking but it had to be true or she would never have reacted like that. She was having an affair with that other female teacher. Sitting there I thought about the 23 years we had been married and the wonderful life we’d had. I’d always wanted a daughter but. Still she hadn’t moved. I looked at her eyes. Her gaze met mine. As we stared at each other she said “Geoffrey, want to lie down with me?” Do I? Do I, I thought. Hell, you have no idea I told myself. Now entirely naked I not only stared at her face and boobs, I stared at her belly a little, her nice looking waist, but I also looked at her wide, wide hips and I went a little further. I looked down her back and looked at that I considered a sweet and shapely young ass. I looked into the mirror. The river was still going in a general southwest direction and the farther they went the greater were the changes in landscape.Very far in the distance, to their right, they could now see a low range of mountains. It could have been part of the same range that contained the tall peak where the cave of the arch was, but he had no way to be sure of that.The banks on both sides were still much higher than the sand bank of the river itself. They could see grass covered plains in the distance where. Walker realized the wealth of magic in the vault and began learning all he could as quickly as he could. He quickly realized that many items used spells largely unknown. Learning those spells alone would be worth his weight in gold to the right magus.Part of the maintenance was to supply the manor and vault with a regular supply of magical energy, for the defenses and containment spells. He regularly invited his Fonti to the manor and brought any one-night stands there too.One day, Hayden.