Motormouth Mikey was never a friend of mine but he had his uses. Last time was just over five long painful years ago. I had a bank deposit vault that ...I had my eye on, where I was minded to max out the credit by making multiple withdrawals. Now, in the right hands an oxy-acetylene torch is to steel plate safe boxes what surgical stainless steel is to cancer tumours. Motormouth Mikey came highly recommended, apparently a consummate artist with the blue flame. In all other respects though, welder. This is where she moved to now. She just wanted to make sure her father or anyone else could see her. An hour later she got up and walked back to the house. There was enough time to dress for supper but she had to hurry. At Supper she and her father talked about the party the next day. She decided to retire early. She excused herself and went to bed. That whole night she thought of Mark. Chapter Three Early the next morning Katherine was up with the sun. She was dressing when she heard a Knock. You two, though, there's no telling what adventures you're getting off into."I left Cindy waiting in Doctor Stebbins' office and walked up the hall to see which of my professors might be free to talk with me. Doctor Simpson was in his office with his door open. I leaned in. He looked up."Oh, for heaven's sake, come in!" he laughed. "You, I don't mind. I just got through with a guy who should be a poetry major, but he's in my engineering classes. I need some relief." And I'm relief?" You know. The reason Dorry was staying was to visit her friend Ketty on our Earth and celebrate the birth of her child, well, once the child decided to arrive that is.Mage Xi also returned to Loegria, though elicited a promise from me to return at some stage and go over the emergence of Jukar in finer detail. Whilst I was not particularly happy to have my memories trampled over again, I didn’t have the heart to turn her down as she’d overcome her fears to be a staunch comrade-in-arms.Vaniralla Freya was.