"Katsu said, "That is very ambitious. I've never heard of a manor school before, or any school for villager children." You are always full of surprise..., Von," Derwen responded. "Tutors for noble children are common. A school in a temple is common. Yet, educating the common class has never been done, even on the mainland."Excited I said, "We will build a fine, brick, school building. Hire a scholar, add a couple of temple priestesses to help. Children of the fallen warriors get preferential. " What are you talking about?"Every word took tremendous effort for me to force out, like I was pushing a boulder up a mountain. "There's ... these two women at my new job. Last night, I—" Last night you WHAT?" One of them kind of had a thing for me and—I didn't push her away when I should have."There was a long, painful pause while Sonya gathered her thoughts.Our relationship had been going great. She was supposed to move in with me in a couple months. A year from now, we both knew I was. Emily breezed into the house as she’d been told to do. “Hi everybody. I need a serious meeting with all of you. It’s about Joan. I had lunch with her today, and there’s something serious going on, even more serious than she realized until I called it to her attention. I got her talking about what’s been going on with her husband.”Dave brought the family together in the living room and Emily sat in the one large overstuffed chair and leaned forward. She started, “First, this is about Joan, and. ’ ‘I hear ya.’ I said, also dropping my bags onto my bed. There was a note from one of the other girls who shared the apartment with us, saying she was at the club, working for Romeo. Romeo owned 2 strip clubs, and when his regular dancers was on the rag or had cramps, he often made one of us fill in. The note said that Romeo wanted to see both of us as soon as we got back, so we dressed in our street clothes and headed back out. We made it a few blocks and entered into the Kitty Kat, the.