She secured tickets as Tim’s team was in town. I agreed. Later that evening, curiosity to learn the views of others I decided to post the earlier do...cument. After getting my ticket at Will Call I was surprised to find only Ken. He was just as surprised to see me. Seeing Kara’s hand at work I smiled. Sitting seven rows up from the blue line, I enjoyed the action and Tim’s company. The only negative was that Tim’s team lost. After the game, we enjoyed after game drinks and snacks at a nearby. "Next, huh?" I said. "Brady, come catch, would you?" What, you want to hit against me?" she asked, surprised."Damn right." I took off the ol' Tools of Ignorance, and grabbed a stick. "OK, Woodard, let's see what you got."First pitch. Fastball. Never saw it. Strike one.Second pitch. She threw me the slider, which didn't surprise me, and I got my bat on it-but not enough. Fouled it off. Strike two.I expected the change next. She must have known that that's what I'd expect-because that's not what. Three weeks after the spring supply train had come and gone, I had my first experience that reminded me of why the hermitage had been created in the first place.Master Ghordun and I were walking out of the main hall, having met there to discuss our upcoming schedule, changed slightly due to the longer hours of daylight available to us now that winter was over and summer close upon us. Three wizards, Tynse of Uhl, Olvar of the Plains and Kenned the younger, were standing by the doors talking.. The first thing that happened was unexpected. The lady pointed her cattle prod at the neck chain and shocked the first four or five of us by triggering it there. The first few slumped, and then she came in further, the second driver behind her with a second cattle prod. Any revolt from the first few was stopped in its tracks before it could materialize. When she?d gotten past the first four or five, she said, ?One, two,? and then shocked the testicles of the man who was unfortunate enough.