At the bottom, scared, soaking wet and exhausted, April and Diane got off their mules and went running to the nearest cabin.Jack yelling to then throu...gh the thunder and rain, “Stay right there, I’ll get your cabin warmed up with a fire.”Ben took the mules to the corral and unsaddled them. True to his word within a few minutes, Jack had a blazing fire roaring in their cabin.Jack looking out at them said, “This is your cabin make a run for it. I have a nice fire going for you.”As they got into. She’s loyal, even though she didn’t like him.“Kolra, Goddess of Domination and Control, suggested that you bargain with Ciarra for your lives. How did you think Our Queen would save you and your sister?”She started to speak a few times, then shook her head, “I never asked, but I assumed that Ciarra would send some of Kolra’s clergy. A few powerful paladins and clerics could probably stop him. Lionel probably thought the same thing.”“That’s the assumption that caused his death.”That got her. And they returned to their hotel. They had a three-bed room in a small hôtel off the Boulevard St. Michel. It offered a five feet-wide French double bed shared by the girls and a single bed for Danny, but no air conditioning. Wooden blinds in front of the windows kept out the direct sunlight, but it was still hot in the room.Danny let the girls have the dingy bathroom first while he lay down on his bed in just his boxer shorts. He could hear a lot of giggling from the bathroom and he had to. My face was red, and I hated my Dad for his customary way of opening the door without looking first.Dad let him inside, and I noticed that Joel, even with his military cut, was nearly as tall as my Dad.Joel didn't seem to care that I was in my pajamas and my new hairdo; in fact I think he liked me in my girlish way even more.I asked Dad's permission to take Joel to my room, and he agreed but told me to leave the door open.So we went to my room and I sat in Buddhist style in my bed while Joel.