Avatharel had spent the night on a battlement on the War College's north coast, staring sleeplessly at the anva-soraved. To his eyes, the plume of thi... smoke it trailed led down below the surface of the sea, to where a spot of malevolence rested, a thing not of Feldare. Long his thoughts rested on what was of Feldare.As dawn broke, he turned to go and find Verothlen in his chambers."I have made the choice."Verothlen gestured, nearly negligently, and Avatharel saw a ball of mana form in the. I unlocked the first filing cabinet and pulled its top drawer open. I browsed through the drawer, pulling out any file that had an interesting looking index tab. I looked at the top page to see how old it was, and if current, I put it on the floor. When the floor had thirty one files open on it, I started reading them all simultaneously. I didn't understand most of it, but I wasn't interested in the details anyway, except about our negotiation. When I found that file, I read it avidly.From time. ”“One reason I’m here is to ask about your guest,” he frowned, “it’s difficult to adjust. Enid. We’d thought she might be ... difficult. My instructions are to take her back with me if you’d rather be without her.”I glanced down, only then realising what I’d been doing – it was so much a habit, I suppose. Sally looked up and met my eyes. Her head shook, fractionally, and her eyes flicked to the door just as Enid walked in. She’d taken the time to strip, except for her collar, and knelt in front. Lydia will kill me if you have sex in the store again.” “Again?” asked Paul. “Yeah,” said Danny. He looked a little uncomfortable. “The old couple next door to you came in one day. They’re really nice. And, the woman is named Clarissa, just like my sister! “Anyway, Ernie, the old guy, was admiring my Felix the Cat boxer briefs and offered to buy them. I mean, $50 is a lot of money for some $3.99 drawers. All he asked was that I take them off right then. “For $50 I’d have run them up a flagpole,.