"Cornelius felt despondent. This was not going well. The King did notseem in the right mood to receive a gift. But any future audience wasn'tlikely...to be any better, so Cornelius thought that now was as good a timeas any. "Sire, if I may say something?" What's that?"Cornelius felt into his pocket and took out a heavy, engraved gold ringfrom it. "I have a present for you, Sire." A present?" Gunnar frowned. "What would I want a present from you for?If I want something from you I'll give. Both of us sat on the big 4-seater couch and watched afilm. Unfortunately the film turned out to be a littlehotter than I had bargained for. It was called ‘NightHair Child’ and was on an old cable channel whichspecialised in B movies from the 70’s. Now I thought wedidn’t have sexy movies then (now I am much wiser) andI had never heard of Britt Ekland (who apparently wasan ex girlfriend of Rod Stewart, that wrinkly old rockstar my mum still likes.She was playing a step. Think about some of the silly things he's had you do when his business partners are around." I started flashing back and remembering and began to fume. But just because he had lost his morals to money didn't mean that I had to lose mine to hearsay or anger. "I still don't think it would be right.: I told her. "OK, I'll just tell him that you were high when you picked me up, made sexual passes towards me and almost got us killed as you were driving was so erratic." my face dropped and I didn't. Slowly with roundabout questions they learned and then as they found that the other was openly interested in them, they began to ask more pointed questions.Jane had run away from her family. She had been traveling for several days and was quite lost. Her mother had remarried after her father had died and they were traveling across the country to a new home. Jane had left after her mother had found her and her stepfather fucking. Evie gradually learned that the stepfather had forced himself on.