So, two parents of different c***dren in the same relationship, you would think we might have a lot to say, but we ended up talking about her ex-husba...d and his new lifestyle. Apparently, she tolerated it for a while, but in the end, she kicked him out. Been 3 years, she said. I bought another round of drinks and Janice opened up about her job. Worked as a call centre top dog and promoted the hard-faced bitch look at the office; she knew it she didn’t care what people thought of her at work .. ‘Tzaphon? Mizrach?’ ‘The first word on each line is a direction. Tzaphon is north. Mizrach, east.’ ‘And the other words?’ Alan put in. ‘That’s the thing. They’re not words. See those apostrophe looking things? The diacritic marks over the second and third words on each line? That usually indicates some sort of abbreviation, but not any I’m readily familiar with. I wish I had some references with me, an Alcaly or a Jastrow,’ he sighed, then explained that the these were dictionaries, the former. "Tammie's heart sank. The sick bastard had tracked her down, apparently waited for her parents to leave, and was now blackmailing her for even more sex than before!She considered shutting and locking the door, but knew it would only make things worse for her in the long run. Her parents were already suspicious of where she'd been the previous night, they didn't need to find out about where she'd been and what she'd been doing on Wednesday while she was supposed to be in school! She stood aside. At the end of the high bank, the furnace in operation grumbled and belched clouds of dark smoke while stone masons worked on building its huge brother. The water driven air pump between them turned slowly as the sluice gate opened. Bare legged black men trundled handcarts across a wooden bridge toward the chimney."Come along, then. We'll hitch a ride on that pung. Got plenty'a mauls and spare axes." He grabbed Matt's hand and gripped it hard, looking him in the face as he did, eyes like cold.