.. give her a hearing, please?” Sasha pleaded with her fiance, much to even her own surprise.“Do it for us, please?” Trudy backed her up, really...making David feel a bit outnumbered by the ladies now.“Oh, alright!” David opened the door, albeit a bit gruffly.“Hello ... for those of you who didn’t know ... I’m Alycen. David’s ex-wife. Look, David, I know that I was nasty as fuck to you, but I want you to know that I’m past that ... and I’m getting remarried very soon. To Joanna here,” Alycen. Somehow, I got sidetracked from panning for gold to improving water flow ... and I don’t understand ... but I wasn’t bored.The quality and variety of stone that I was pulling up off the bottom ... yellow and orange quartzite boulders the size of my torso were undermined by the suction nozzle of the six inch Keene and rolled into the cavity ... until I realized that I could rig a crane and remove them. And learning how to operate the crane I find and restore to running condition would keep the. The wolfhowever, had had it's eyes closed for hours now, in deep sleep.The wizard clenched his right fist around the pen in his hand, releasingthe "projected-force" spell on it. Damn those word-obsessed magicteachers. Taking aim, he threw the pen towards the wolf, only succeedingin striking it on its side below the beast's head."Damn." He frowned in frustration.The wizard held out his right hand once more, palm facing to where thepen had landed a short distance from the basket in which his pet. Please accept my apologies.” “Well,” said Sandy with a degree of relief, “everything has been taken care of. Please come back and see us again.” “It was wonderful. I hope I can come back, soon.” Judy turned and walked away, looking and feeling like a million bucks. ‘It was so nice of Nick to treat me to that, I’ll have to find a way to thank him.’ Little did she realize that the full four hundred dollar tab had been placed on their room bill. ***** As Judy walked into the casino invigorated by.