. not now.David looked back at Jeannie with the question on his face... Jeannie caught it and shook her head and mouthed, "call me".The tranquility of... the setting was destroyed and two young voices split the air, "Daddy, daddy wait til I tell you..."The kids hugged their dad, then Carol and Jeannie and then headed for his car. Carol walked up to David and looked into his eyes and said "Thank you David."As Dave drove home both kids said, "Dad, why can't mom come home?"Supper over, kids in bed,. When they brought out the last dish the table was almost groaning under the weight of all the goodies.The pièce de résistance was a bottle of bubbly Sue had chilling in a bucket of ice. "Don't expect this kind of service every day," she joked as Bob worked the cork out of the bottle. "Today is a special day and should be commemorated with much pomp and circumstance. Unfortunately, we're low on both, so a bottle of domestic bubbly is what you get."As we ate it was fun to watch Gail—she was ready. It was meant as a humiliating posting, far beneath the previous post and power. None of the other wizards had ever heard from him again and assumed he had perished during a devastating attack of Union forces on the Lark home system itself.But Viesienul was far from dead. The former High Wizard of the Ministry of Control had kept abreast of all that occurred within Kermac space and influence.He knew of course of the sudden fall of the last Supreme Wizard, the infamous Zwhehzwheneu. Obnoxious. During the projection, they held hands, and Linda even rested her head on Carla's shoulder.After the film, they decided to eat something before going back to Linda's house. I guess both of them wondered if the kitchen would be clean.And after eating, hell, they were at the mall. They just walked around, holding hands, window-shopping.Then they met Jane and Dinah. They were Linda's friends, from college!Linda wasn't thinking. She liked the mall, her friends liked the mall, the chance for them to.