Thanks, Dad. It'll be good to be with you again."If Joyce wasn't listening to Ocsana's advice at the meeting, she was listening when she was told not ...o contact me directly. I heard nothing from her about the boys coming up to Orondo on the weekend. I was certain Matt would tell her, so I assumed they had at least grudging permission. Maybe a weekend alone in that big house would have some affect on her thinking.I told Terry what had happened at the meeting and he was all for having the boys at. The door was guarded by shrouded Dai Warriors, all carrying the same swords as Har-Hi across their backs, but also holding Alti-Karr throwers at the ready.To my surprise, I noticed six Orc-Oghr in Dai Than leather and the Hi glyph on their harness and their capes. Har-Hi said while the door was pushed open manually by more Orc-Oghr from the inside.“Remember I think I told you, Dai is the race. Dai Than are warriors with their honor intact. No outsider can ever become a Dai as it is as. I closed my eyes and took a long, deep breath to settle the screaming in my body. Without warning his hand brushed my left hip and the breath deep in my throat cut short and I pressed back on the bed again. ‘Get on,’ he whispered in a voice full of honey. How was it possible to lust for a man you’d never seen? I shook my head. His body heat touched me first before his hand fell into place at my hip, and then his stomach leant, slightly, into mine. His cologne drifted through me like a ghost, I. Humour is not a particularly strong element of life in Number 10 so when it happens it assumes greater potency than it otherwise might. Have you ever noticed how laughter can be like a gin trap? It sits there, hidden in the undergrowth and then springs as you tread on it. I suddenly lost it. It started with a little shift of my shoulders and then sort of burst and my stomach began to heave and I was laughing like a drain, my eyes streaming. I couldn’t speak.“Pearl who?”I was lost and simply.