He is our friend, and for some of us, even more." She looked directly at me when she said that last part. "I will not allow any of my friends to be he...ld by an enemy if it is within my power to attempt to free them." Atheria," Val said, stepping closer to her and laying her hand on the light elf's shoulder, "you are talking about entering the Dark Domain. It will be more dangerous than you know." Then we are lucky that we have someone with us who knows their way around," Atheria replied, casting. "We're going to have to be careful about this," he said. "Everything has to be clean. We should get the maid..."His voice trailed off as he looked speculatively at Sue. She raised an eyebrow. "You were saying about a maid?" "I will need the bathroom thoroughly cleaned for my, um, slave's usage tonight. My...er...maid will need to bring some supplies."Sue was shaking her head, but she had an indulgent look on her face. "Fine. I know a place." She opened her purse and took out her notepad and. " You will learn. In the process, you take the women and children off the street and give them a job. We will be here a while yet and I will tell you what I want."Juke ordered barrels of good wine for me and then we went looking for a place to set up shop. We found an old warehouse but it didn't look safe. When we looked for equipment I was depressed. I had hoped that somewhere the spinning wheel had been invented. There was only the local equivalent of a distaff. The only reason I knew about. The rooms were all cleaned, polished, floors mopped or vacuumed. She was folding the last load of laundry when the phone rang. ‘Mr. McMahon’s residence.’ ‘Cynthia?’ said the cheery voice. ‘Good morning, Ms. Cuthbert.’ ‘Emily,’ she reminded. ‘Please call me Emily.’ ‘Of course. Emily it is.’ ‘How’s he doing?’ ‘He’s sleeping.’ He head turned to the doorway to his bedroom. ‘Been sleeping almost nonstop for a day.’ ‘Oh yes, he does that. Works himself into total exhaustion painting and painting..