"Great - really smooth. Why not just tell her you're a friendless socialoutcast?"Glad to hear it!" She left that hanging in the air."Let me guess - yo... have more treatments lined up for me?" Did I soundjust a little too eager?Rae laughed - god, I was getting to really like the sound of that laugh."Actually, no. I was thinking something a little more along the linesof... a date."That got my attention!"Seriously? I mean, yeah, OK. Of course. Where? What time?"She smiled a secretive little smile.. .. why you sent me to Tyrsall?” Treya had never quite forgiven Yewen for sending her away from her friends at Four Roads.Yewen sighed. “Regardless of what you wanted to do, Tyrsall offered more options. Four Roads is the smallest chapter house in the Orders, and we had too many orphans from those raiders. Those were some bad years, until Sister Shana took care of the group here, and the knights crossed the border and eliminated the rest. There simply aren’t that many men around here looking for. Now, better than 20 years later, the grand old building and the surrounding area were again headed toward the seedy side.The spray from the huge fountain in Aloe Plaza across Market from Union Station caused Rollie to duck his head as he walked. Strangely, in spite of developing blight in the area, neither Union Station nor Aloe Plaza had been plagued by graffiti artist or taggers as they were called. A lot of people called them vandals.Entering Mississippi Nights, Rollie stepped to the side of. .. had to be." Are you feeling all right?" asked my dad.I didn't answer for a moment. "I think so," I said at length. "Just a nightmare."He seemed mollified, and my mother had returned to cooking, so I retreated to the bathroom, where I threw up.My dad heard it, and came to the bathroom door. "Son, are you sick?" I was for a second, there ... I think I'm okay now," I answered, cleaning out the vile taste from my mouth.I emerged from the bathroom to my parents looking very grim. My mother said,.