"Always forgetting thing's.." My mother used to say.I looked at my toned and pale body in the bathroom Mirror. My long auburn hair was like fire and m... skin was like milk. My 34DD's was not the biggest pair of tit's for my age. But if you were a 21 year old single waitress from England you would think 38GG's were tiny.I Heard a dark chuckled from behind me and turned sharply and saw nothing. I wiped my forehead, setting my path from the bathroom to the bed. I turned the light out and sprinted. The nationalistic fervor of the 20th century, the religious and racial zealotry of the 21st, the urban insurrections of the 22nd had long since been overcome by either sheer force or calming moderation. Advances in weaponry had rendered total warfare an idea of the past; with biological, chemical and nuclear "weapons of mass destruction" within the reach of all, few could fail to recognize that an all-out attack on any rival, no matter how hated, would inevitably result in their own national. ‘Has Steve ever groped you or forced himself on you in any way? Let me rephrase that. Has he ever groped you in a way that you didn’t want to be groped? He’s a gentleman.’ ‘He’s never laid a finger on me that way, if you must know, Kate. The fact remains that he’s dating a beautiful, older woman without giving me as much as a hint about it. We aren’t going steady or anything, but that’s still a pretty low thing to do!’ ‘That’s what I was trying to tell you earlier this evening when you were. Revanche had made that perfectly clear from the very beginning, they both had known it was a temporary relationship, but it was obvious Saraphina didn't take goodbyes well.Laurel went to her campsite, pushed dirt over the small firepit making sure the fire was out, rolled up her bedroll put her flute in her pack, picked up her harp, slung it over her shoulder with her pack and left the gathering. Back at her lair she took out the flute and books she had purchased, setting them on the desk in.