I wasn't that hungry so I left Paul to browse the buffet and poured myself a white wine. Looking furtively around the room, I took in the room and it'...s inhabitants. One thing was immediately apparent; I was definitely the youngest there. Most guys looked to be in their 20s or 30s and I recall thinking that it was surprising that there weren't more people there of Derek's age. As I scanned onto a sofa, I saw a face I recognised. "Hiya!" I said as I wandered over. "Room for a small one?" I asked. Julie poked her head in, asking if she could join him.Julie walked over much more tentatively than she usually would. She was a bit afraid of what Zane might be thinking about her right now. Although Zane had known her for most of their lives, he had never seen her like he did yesterday. Sure, he’d seen her naked. He’d seen her in the throes of passion and lovemaking, just never with anyone other than himself. Yesterday he had learned what may be the only secret she’d still kept from him.They. Through an entrance to the crawlspace in the school basement, I climbed up into a space right next to the girl's locker room. I drilled a few holes in the bottom of the wall that was parallel to the girls showers. I measured carefully and managed to make the holes pop out in the middle of cracks between the tiles. I attached some of the remaining stone to small string I bought from the dollar store, and plugged the end of the holes with the stone. This way, I could pull the stone out easily. From regulation uniform boots to every other style she possessed, she simply felt more comfortable and secure in them, probably from having spent most of her life trudging about in them. The soft leather of her black ankle boots was a bit of a balm just then. ‘I cannot go to the queen with what I know because, what do I tell her? It all comes to me from my husband the Healer and his apprentice, but they are not simply healers. They used forbidden magic and manipulated minds so that I can know.