“Gallea and I started as wandering musicians and storytellers. We weren’t born into the Fates’ service.”“How did you come into their service...?” Bellerophon said. If he was trying to hide the venom in his voice, he didn’t do a very good job. He must have really hated the sisters.Pinna frowned at him, and resumed cutting. “If you must know, we were at an inn when a raiding group of barbarian centaurs started a fight. We were caught in the middle, and the Fates offered us a way out. It was either. From the time you were a baby you’ve always been the one to cheer up the family. You don’t deserve all this.’ ‘And now I’ll end up spending the rest of my life alone. I can’t believe this is happening to me.’ ‘I’ll never abandon you, Mandy. You’ll never be alone.’ ‘You know what I mean, Sandy. Is it too much to expect a partner to stick around for 3-6 months? Pete has the rest of his life to spend with his married trollop. Couldn’t he just pretend for this short period of time?’ ‘Mandy, I have. For the next two years of University I was exclusively with other women. I never got with another guy until after graduating and that was with the man I am married to (although there have been other men since, but that is something totally different and for another time). I knew i wasn't a lesbian but that i am totally bi – although I think i really lean more towards women, i don't know, it is completely different, like comparing apples with cheese – like that different (and sometimes they go. .. uh... enforced as rigorously as they could be." Kyle was speaking carefully. He'd rehearsed the words in his mind. He hoped they were coming out the way he wanted them to."If you could say, for instance, that I had some reliable information that... uh Mrs. Peggy Whitely and one of the guys going with her to the Chicago conference are thinking of hooking up... and you could say that would... mmmmmnnn... let's say call the company's policies into question... well, the effectiveness of those.