For more than six full years, one king’s army had remained encamped at the barrier, attempting numerous means to penetrate the impenetrable, waiting... for the barrier to falter for just a single heartbeat of time, yet the army had ultimately trudged down the mountain in defeat without a single weapon having been brought into action. The ‘prize’ for anyone able to break past the barrier: a vast pool of knowledge on virtually all matters from history to herbs, from warfare to writing, from magic. The hard part has been not being able to see Anna. With her still sidelined with a stress fracture in her foot, trying to explain her hanging around all the tournaments from start to finish was getting a little tricky. So, for the last couple of tourneys, Anna could only call Jen and tell her of all the thing she was wishing she was able to be doing with her. Jen understood and all, but this did not take away the fact that she was missing Anna and was becoming increasingly hornier with each. About anything. He did not care if English was not even her first language. He loved her plain and simple. ‘You did what!?’ He all but roared. Araminta shrunk back into her chair in fear, ‘I’m sorry. I truly am. I didn’t know you really liked her like that. I mean, she’s a good dancer and she’s…pretty I guess, but I thought you were just…’ ‘What?’ He said so quietly that Araminta nearly did not hear him, ‘You thought I was just what? Fucking her? And you told her this, didn’t you? You ganged up. The next was Friday and I was busy with my office works as usual and I got a call from her saying that it would it be possible for me to come down to have lunch at her place to which I proposed for evening snacks to which she agreed. In the evening I visited her she was eagerly waiting for me to meet her. Her kid was not at home as the kid had gone to their in-laws home because of summer vacation and she was all alone at home. She made tea for us and I made up my mind that today is my day. We.