“You’ll still have to detour through ‘De-con’ first,” Flinn reminded us.“Hope they don’t scrap my armour. Could be a bit of a bugger get...ting a new set out here,” I chuckled wryly.“True, the Artificer’s shop we have is a standard, but not an advanced one.”“One bridge at a time,” Torun chimed in. “This one’s stable, on to the next.”“Talking of the Bridge, way’s clear now. Kiria, you head up there and see if you can get the senior Officers up and about and back in control. Torun, you head for. My parents had the stereotypical attitude of pushing me to be my academic best and convincing me that the best thing I could do was go to med school at a good university. It is probably needless to say that they were disappointed when I decided to go into English and Rhetoric. They were even more disappointed when they found out that I received little financial aid. So this is where I started. I would like to think of the college experience as a renewal for me. The whole ‘today is the first day. It’s a truism, sopranos go for tenors and vice versa, certainly the case for us. One down side is that when Vicky gets vocal it is ear-splitting. ‘Oh fuckaaaaaaaaa’ right up the scale to her top note. Good job we have a large manor house in the Kentish countryside a long way from anyone else.I looked at my beautiful girl. Tall, only a couple of inches shorter than me with dark red hair falling down her back in waves, creamy skin and curvy. Not fat but definitely not undernourished. I. Good, the pig had puthis car in the garage. Chisel got really annoyed when he didn't have room forhis bike,but the last time Roy had left the car out in Chisel's space, Chiselhad locked Roy in his own trunk, naked, and it had been a cold December night.Roy was much more considerate now. Just the other day, he'd been unbelievablythoughtful in a way that Chisel wouldn't have believed of the angry, bigotedElroy of one year before. It had been a Sunday afternoon, and Chisel had decided to liven it.