”“And you don’t do that?” Janet asked.“Not yet,” I said. The interns would begin some training evolutions on that after the New Year, but ... didn’t want to spoil the surprise.“So, Paul, you’ve been staying close to home for the past month,” Kelly said. “Any trips coming up?”“I’ll be spending a little more time with the interns after the new year, but Jeryl and I decided we needed to have a little more home time this year. It feels like we’ve been running hard for the past few.”“You have,” Jim. ..You can't swim?" Lee asks, making me inwardly breathe a sigh ofrelief as I nod, even though I'm actually a very good swimmer. "Meh,there's no shame in that. Rob here never learned how to ride a bike!" My dad's been giving me driving lessons even though I'm not seventeenfor another four months, I don't NEED a bike," Rob retorts as theother boys- myself include- all let out a quiet laugh at his expense."Four months?" I ask. "Don't tell me that you're a millennial babytoo?" January 19th," Rob. We used to have all sorts of crazy sexual adventures, but that had faded into oblivion.It was time to get back into our groove again. We were everyone's idea of two people who had never tired of each other. We had talked it over and it was time to make an effort to rekindle the fire. Friday night would be dinner at a nice restaurant and the opening round of crazy sex. Since this was Tuesday, each of us could plan our strategy of what we could do to the other person.My mind shifted into. “Whoever they are, they’re paying for hobgoblin enforcers. That’s not cheap.”I rubbed my chin in thought. “And it’s not one of the established Thieves’ Guilds, they’re cut along racial lines, wouldn’t make sense for either of them to ... outsource.”“Got it!” Calliope shouted.During my exchange with Voss, she had slipped behind the counter, and then was standing there triumphantly with a bound leather ledger in her hands.“What’s that?” Voss inquired.“‘The books’, as it were,” she replied, “Or at.