" What is quarry?" The hunt?" he looked for confirmation that she understood, "the hunt chases the quarry, like a deer or a fox or a wolf."She thought...for some moments and then in a much softer tone of voice she asked, "I can be free? You not lie?" I will never lie to you," said Ramzy El-Najjar, "It is not easy to be free. I will train you and it is possible. You can be free, but it is not easy." No rape?" I will not lie to you. If you lose, rape. Today, rape. After today no rape except after a. My wife Kate was due to meet me after a few days in Vegas as she couldn't get away from work for the full amount of time. We were due to meet up with a couple, Paul and Sarah, who Kate new many years ago in college who had emmigrated from the UK out to Phoenix some fifteen years earlier.Little did I know, but Paul Sarah and Kate had arranged a little more than just meeting up for a meal and a friendly drink, which I was soon to find out. This is part 1 of the story prior to Kate joining. ”I loved her smile. I loved her touch. I wistfully thought of what might have been, and remembered Jennie’s advice: just be her friend. I didn’t react other than smile back as I left the table.Last exam of the year. Science Class. I had started with ‘Atoms and Molecules’ the introductory chemistry class, had gone on to ‘Meteorology’ and ‘Biology’, and this final quarter I had ‘Heat, Energy and Uses’ - the introductory physics class. I had this one in the bag. I hadn’t missed a point on homework. “That might very well kill ya, pointy-ears,” the dwarf said sweetly but poured obligingly.“Thank you,” Shilana smiled, saluted Leo and tipped the drink down her throat. Her delicate elven features flushed, but she didn’t cough. Smiling bitterly, she sighed and leaned against Leo, not minding the ridges of his chest piece pushing into her.“Leo, I’m almost two hundred and seventy years old. Four years to me is a passing acquaintance,” she almost whispered.“Yeah, sometimes I’m forgetting that.