Jackie poked her head in. She smelled the sex on Sandy's body. Jackie walked in and closed the door."I was going to ask if you had sex with our guests... last night, but my nose tells me there is no reason to. Instead I'll just ask if you are OK. Hitosan and company just said you were indisposed when I saw them off this morning. They all had shit-eating grins and said that they were satisfied. So, are you OK?"Sandy sat up in bed and groaned. "I think I'm OK. Does the phrase 'ridden hard and put. I told him that I was from Leominster, Massachusetts, and I was here to do some historical research for a book I planned to write about the war with the Comanches. They were all suitably impressed by my fib, and I learned some more about the history of what happened when Whites first moved into this territory. Hell, maybe I would write that book after all.I spent so much time with the Hortons that it was getting toward supper time. I tried to excuse myself “to go find a restaurant,” but I was. Lilly blinked her large brown eyes a few times as she stared indisbelief. "You know?" Of course," Cho said casually, and started to walk down the corridorafter the others. "I'm neither deaf nor dumb, Lilly. I've heard peoplewhisper and point, and one of the Slytherin boys has been spreading evenmore rumors because I refused to go with him to the Yule Ball." So it's true then!" Lilly said with an excited little yelp. "You aredating someone!"Cho cast a sideways glance at the Hufflepuff girl and. Just about everyone in town could be labeled as ‘folk he’d had business with’. Samples of his craft could be found on shelves and in drawers all throughout their home. Even before that, her father had worked as a healer, using his magic to mend wounds and his knowledge to cure ills. That had been a while ago now. So long that Phyre scarcely had any memories of the time left. Now she was learning to work with glass too, so that someday she would join him in the trade, as had her mother. A family.