I started to apologise for not having made a similar effort, but she slapped me on the hip to stop me. ‘Don’t be daft, it’s your company I want,... not the contents of your wardrobe. Anyway, I want people looking at me, not at you.’ We had decided to go to a different bar to the usual office one. I was a bit unsure about how we should walk together, but Zöe seemed quite comfortable with reaching up and slipping her small hand into mine, which was fine by me. In the evening rush of City folk. With broad smiles Ambrose, his knights and paladins started to cut a wide path through the defenders. They had almost reached the main building when Ambrose felt a huge build up of power much like his own. The largest he’d ever felt.Roth blocked a sword heading for Ambrose’s neck as he suddenly stopped staring at the door of the building. “Sire?” Roth asked, “Are you alright?”Shaking his head to clear it Ambrose said nothing as he started to pull his people to the side away from the door. If. “My girls and I know you had nothing to do with the horrors that night, and we’ll tell it to everyone we see.”Mindblind snorted. “Don’t know that the truth’s enough to stop him.”“Folk around here may not treat you over kindly, but they’re just afraid of you because you’re different. They despise that man because he’s a corrupt scoundrel and an ass. If it comes to that, folk will stand for you.”At a loss, Mindblind could only respond, “If you say so.”“I do.” She smiled, and then started waving. There a ticket was waiting for her at the KC airport. She took a commuter flight to Des Moines where Gracie and Courm met her at the gate. They were all in the car when Marie told Gracie about her mother’s death. Brenda had used Gracie as a solid gold meal ticket for years, but she was still her mother. Now Gracie had nobody except those she chose. From Des Moines it was a drive to Detroit, Courm and Marie alternated driving. When they got in Marie tried to call Mark, only to leave a voicemail..