I could seenothing to either side, of course, because of the blinkers; but I could hearBessie and her minions moving around, and the sounds of the axe...s, saws etc.needed for wood-cutting being placed in the cart behind me.The air was completelystill, and it was bitterly cold. The cart creaked as Bessie lowered her weight into the diving seat. She raisedmy reins and brought them down with a crack upon my shoulders. As I began tomove tentatively forward, she pulled my head round sharply to the. I had to learn more. To help Sven defeat my father’s foul plans. And Shevoin was in my father’s confidence. The master mage aided him, providing the magics. I had a feeling he was behind my father’s ability to control an entire army of proxies instead of just one like I could.Footsteps padded to the door. “What is it? Is there a problem?”“No problem, Master Mage,” I purred as the door creaked open.I put my arm around Greta, pulling the bedmaid tight to me. I put on my most seductive smile, my. If we left the apartment, they would follow us. The doorman made sure we got to the right floor in the elevator.As we strolled back to their apartment from the restaurant a few minutes after eating, Wendy asked, “So, are you two married, long-term partners, or just fuck buddies?”I was surprised that the question hadn’t come up over dinner, but there were other people around, and we’d kind of focused the discussion on our jobs, companies, career tracks, and then some of the current events.I. She had magnificent blue eyes, blonde hair (although it appeared that it was probably not her original color) cut very attractively so that it just broke in curls on her shoulders. Her makeup was impeccably done, in either perfect lines or smoothly fading changes as the case might be. Her skin was as smooth as silk with no visible blemishes.I rode toward her slowly, savoring her loveliness. When I got near, she spotted me and gave me a quick smile of apology as she moved her basket to the side.