"Beverly, Kittens, what a wonderful surprise," began Saffrella. "Nina isabout to sing for us." She was hugging us and turned to the waitress,"Bring us...two Wild Cougars and two Sassy Kittens."The waitress set the drinks down as a pretty Draconian Kitten prancedout onto the stage.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"Fire, you called?" began Mother Fox as she slowly approached the patiotaking in the new Centaurs and their condition."Yes I need to get a message to Omega, to Mistress. ’ That was all that I said, I needed to say no more. I knew that my facts were not only correct, but provable. At 10:00 the next morning I was at the Council offices for the Planning Meeting. I had a copy of this morning’s paper under my arm. The front page was going into the scrap book that I was about to start. My first by-line. The Headline Writer had come up with ‘Council Under Pressure’ which I thought was somehow a tad lacking, but it did have an economy of words that I had yet to. ”With that, Sara got up from the table and suggested that Darcy and I go for a walk and talk.We went outside and began to walk around the vast property. Darcy took my hand as we walked and it felt so natural to be with her. The moonlight shined in Darcy’s eyes as we talked about the arrangement and how she and Sara had worked out the sleeping arrangements for me. For the next month I would spend each night with Darcy in the hopes of getting her pregnant with our first child and then we would. "Well I'm pleased you could make it Dawn, I'd have thought that you'dhave been up to your neck in it with the show. It's the fourth year nowisn't it?" Yes, and still playing to packed houses. There's still an opening foryou if you want to come back to be my hair-dresser."I was pleased with her offer and said so but I had family commitments upuntil the end of the year what with visits to return and a house to findin London. We agreed to return to New York after Christmas and Dawnenthusiastically.