She became frightened when she saw several riders approaching from inside the tree line. The old man stood and began removing his disguise. One of the... riders dismounted and handed the NOT old man leather armor that he put on. The woman with the riders started to introduce everyone, but Mia replied, “Lady Tia.” This caused Tia to shout “Oh Fuck, Shit and Damn It All to Hell!” turning Mia asked, “Lord Keal, why is Lady Tia angry?” Keal just said as he laughed “I told you she was smart and would. The department of corrections was nice enough to have me an apartment set up and ready to go. I only had to pay for utilities as the rent was paid by the state. Since I had no friends I had a lot of time to sit at home and read my policies and procedures. Any issues that came up at work I had a solution to it. My captain noticed this and always gave me outstanding evaluations. I was employee of the month 4 times in a year and got a parking space next to the warden with a sign that read. Yesterday I was happy and now I was struggling for my very survival. In only hours, simple pleasures became impossible feats. The easiest of tasks were now overwhelming.I kept thinking, I should have insisted she stay with me instead of letting her get away. I simply had been too offhand about it, lazy, too unconcerned. I deserved my death and hers. I was a dog. No, why blame the dogs? I got up and found the bottle of wine I had brought with me and drank from it heavily. Kitty had been a. An uneasy truce existed between us as we practiced together. This was thelast song I wanted to sing with him, and I knew the feeling was mutualfrom him. But there was no way we were getting out of it, so we would haveto make the best of the situation.All too soon we were back in front of the class singing 'I've Had the Timeof My Life' for them. Mark was the last person I wanted to sing a lovesong with. I knew I could get through it, but more importantly, I knew Icould outshine him as we sang..