“Seth,” she said, upon seeing me, with a bit of relief in her voice. Before I could say anything, she grabbed me and dragged me inside.Of all the ...eople in the apartment, I noticed Sheriff Dalton first. She sat at Jordan’s small dinette table across from Danielle. My redheaded Fonte spotted me, perked up, and threw a defiant glance at the Sheriff. Without a word, she stood up and sauntered over to me. She wore a dark red long sleeved blouse with wide lapels. The top button was open, showing off. "Pfarr's method was a convolution of Chuc Ho's, and it produced the effect by resonance rather than alignment..."Sable insisted they take frequent breaks for exercise, and now she insisted again. "A mage who cannot fight when offered steel is offered death," she said seriously, and both Shan Hu and the other nodded.While Sable learned the art of the sword, she took her bruises from the practice lathes stoically, for she could land powerful blows on the demon in return. Infuriating her, though. We’d sit on a bench at lunchtime and I’d just keep asking silly questions and she’d fall for it every time, flowing into long detailed answers whilst I just drank greedily from her aura.It was Friday, the end of my first week, and we were walking home together. I asked her what she was doing on the weekend. She was training ice skating. Suddenly she got excited as though the idea had just come to her: would I like to come ice skating with her? I said I couldn’t skate. She said it was ok, she’d. .. that was about me, wasn't it?"Sasha blushed and averted her eyes. "Well ... Not specifically about you..." Spinning and spinning, reaching and flowing. Dizzy with euphoria and always feeling like you're just a few inches short of reaching me. And then at the end, nearly falling, hanging by a thread ... before finally picking yourself back up?" It's a routine..." Just a routine?" I cocked an eyebrow and looked at her expectantly.After a few seconds, Sasha crumbled and sighed. "Okay, so it was.