They did everything together! She would even meet him at his office some days and have lunch – usually after getting a text, “miss you, lg. need t... see your face. lunch.” And he liked it when her mother was away too. He said so. She got little presents all the time, like her teddy bear she couldn’t sleep without. She would tuck it between her legs and pretend it was him. She liked it a lot better when she could sleep with him in his bed… ‘cause more than the presents, she loved the cuddles and. ’ he said, putting down the bottle to shake hers. The hand that held hers was large, with wide palms and long, narrow fingers, the skin textured by years of hard work. He’d removed his hat, the hair beneath was a dark reddish brown cropped short. ‘You’re Doc Wyatt?’ ‘Wyatt to you, drink more water, Aeryn. There’s a bathroom off to your left. You should shower.’ ‘Why? Do I stink?’ she asked, bending to sniff herself. She didn’t, but Wyatt didn’t say as much. He simply pressed the bottle of water. " Oddtus muttered, not at all comfortable with this curious new reality that he had suddenly found himself trapped in."Indeed!" The goblin shaman pronounced. "It is indeed so! The 'oath-breakers', or 'Fex'oegh' have indeed come with the sword of prophecy and an old age of this world begins to reach its end. Some say that by the ending of an age that all oaths are thus broken and must be made anew at the start of the new one. If this be so, even the great oath-breaking can now be in time. Bis heute Abend. Halt, da f?llt mir noch etwas ein."Sie kam zu uns und spr?hte uns mit diesem aufdringlichen Parfum ein.Igitt! Wenn es Nuttenparfum gab, dann war es das! Aber dann waren wirallein. Darauf hatte ich gehofft. Die Fesseln hatten n?mlich eineSchwachstelle, an die er nicht gedacht hatte. In den Plastikbindernsorgte nur eine winziges Plastikteil, das als Ratsche diente, daf?r,dass das Band festgehalten wurde. Nur die Umh?llung machte das Ganzestabil. Ich brauchte es gar nicht zu.