This is your home now, and I want you to treat it that way. I am away from here a lot of the year but I will make sure there is someone here to take c...are of you while I am gone.” He continued, “For the time being you will have rooms in the house; you boys will have to share a room for the time being. I am talking to a contractor this afternoon to have three small apartments built behind the house, when that is complete you will all have your own private areas including computers, phones, TV and. She blushed and looked into his eyes.“Let's get you to bed and some arms around you,” Eric softly said, taking both her hands in his.Andrea followed his soft pull. Both of them lay down and quickly cuddled up lying sideways.After a while, with a shameful timbre, Andrea whispered, “I'm sorry, Eric, for what I said earlier. I was... I was... I felt so exposed. It dawned to me how foolish I behaved and what I was about to do. It was very... well, immature. You saw right through me and I felt both. Only the Seers really drew upon the Fount with any regularity-- mankind was never meant to handle that kind of power.But this boy? An initiation was a necessary ritual. It made the Ether aware of a practitioner's presence. Only an initiate could direct the Ether through the structured pattern of a spell. It simply wasn't possible to perform as this young man confidently walking beside him had claimed to. To draw the Ether directly, without spells, simply by focusing his awareness? Barrachus. She was wearing a flimsy summer dress and heels that showed off the shape of her strong athletic legs. I thought it was quite unusual for her to call, we’d always got along when I was married to her sister, but I wouldn’t say we were particularly close.We chatted over a cup of tea sat out in the back garden for a while. She was quite chirpy and happy and I found myself thinking, how come we’d never really chatted like this before.“So what brings you here today Donna? You’ve been to visit your.