"Pray if you want."The hall was magnificent. The monks take a vow of poverty, but that does not apply to their common areas. I was surrounded both by ...monks with ceremonial weapons and my own Royal Guard with more modern weapons. Not that the two sides would go to war with each other. Within the city limits of Babylon, and even worldwide under some special circumstances, command authority of the Guard falls to the head monk of Babylon. If he ordered my Guard to kill me, they would, as long as. I stood and walked to the back door and looked out the window. I watched for a minute. Then I saw him. It was a Cuban or Hispanic guy watching the house. I probably wouldn’t have seen him if he hadn’t been smoking. I moved away from the window and went to the front of the house. IT hurt like hell when I walked. But I was getting better. I kept back from the windows and searched the area across the street. There was a guy in a car about four houses down, just sitting there. People don’t sit in. "Huh, I thought the little Indian girl was your girlfriend?" Ricky asksthe embarrassed boy. "Or do they, you know, share you?" No," Ashley mumbles. "I just like hanging out with the girls, that'sall..." You don't have a go at me for hanging out with girls, do you?" I ask mybrother."Well, no, because you ARE a girl," Ricky laughs. "Stick him in a dressand I'll stop have a go." You'll stop having a go full stop," I say as Ashley looks more and moreembarrassed. "Have you finished the photo album?". The cadets seemed a bit at a loss for a moment then Ravensclaw walked over to one of the saddled horses and looked it in the eye, the horse shook its head and he moved to the next in line. This one snort, then gestured with its head in a way that said get on and let's get going kid.Ren'retere looked and walked to the one that had rejected Ravensclaw and it seemed to accept him, so he set his bow case on the saddle mounts and climbed up, settling himself in for a long ride. One of the other.