And I’m here with Bezedil’s encouragement. You are about to fulfill the command of a goddess.”“I am? How so?”“You were instructed by Visin...iria to allow her people to thank you in their own way, and I believe you agreed to it.”“Ah, I see. And how do elves thank someone for whatever it is you’re thanking me for?”“Don’t diminish what you’ve done for us, please. This is too important.” Talia told him, being pleasant but serious. “I will thank you for the life of my sister. You have returned her to. After I got this one chick pregnant though, we both got our tubes tied. I felt sorry for the kid, she had it aborted.I met Vince in collage and we hit it off. We began spiking drinks at clubs, getting girls drunk, whatever we could do to lay them and take their cash. Me, he and my brother paid our way through collage that way, and I had no problems doing girls wrong. Eventually, I graduated with a degree in engineering, but choose to become a criminal, it was easy and I had already been doing. .Then I remembered why I abandoned her in the bar.As usual, when we’ve both had a few drinks she gets flirty and I end up telling her how I feel. The first time I told her I got a sloppy kiss. Thought I made it but it never evolved into anything serious. The next time I pushed it a little further only for her to shoot me down with the classic line, "I love you as a friend."As I approached the front door I looked through the spy hole and saw nothing but the nocturnal street. However, I could. . the Wilson Company case, I wondered what he was doing there. He didn't fit. It was you," she accused."You have a remarkable memory Miss O'Malley, a remarkable eye for details," I complimented; stunned she'd been able to go back in her mind and find me. I'd sat in the back of one of her courtrooms for two hours simply watching her perform, trying to get an idea of who she was. She'd been masterful."Hah, I didn't even recognize you." I could see she was silently chiding herself for missing.