" OK, old boy. Thanks for ringing." There was a joking pause. "Don't do anything I wouldn't do." As if. See you both sometime tomorrow morning." With ... young lady in tow." Yes." We'll look forward to seeing you both. 'Bye, Gerry." 'Bye, Dad."He turned back to Isobel. "I got Dad so it was easy." So I gathered," she smiled. "Sit down, Mr du Puys. I want to sit on your knee and kiss you."She did so and then got the giggles. "You've got the length in the leg and I've got the length in the body.. The ward was still dark and the dayshift staff hadn't arrived yet. I dressed in my sweats, went down and started jogging around the grounds. I had a lot on my mind and I didn't want to be distracted later on. I needed to maintain my focus later so it was time to get things sorted and straightened out."Why haven't you called or written me, Izzy?"'Why haven't you called me?'"I don't know where you are."'You could find out, if you wanted to.'"I think I have to let you go."'Boy, you can't let go of. He could see that besides preparing dinner she had also prepared herself. She was wearing a rather tight dress and had applied what he called all of her war paint or makeup as most people would call it. She looked much better than when he first met her.Before dinner was served she asked him if he wanted a sour apple martini. Since she was having one he agreed to join her. They sipped on these rather large sized drinks she prepared and ate some of the “snackies” she had put out. Dinner was good. It had been more that three months now since his wife, Tabatha was taken from him and, in a trial lasting less than an hour, sentenced to exile on a barren, baked Earth. The justices had immediately surrounded her and teleported her there after stripping her of her powers. He hadn’t even been allowed to say goodbye to her.Since that day, Jake had relentlessly spent every free moment learning as much as he could about the justice system, the powers of the goddesses, previous judgements; anything.