The men spend their days sowing golden fields, gratefully embracing the bounty the goddess has once again provided. The women warm their beds for the ...winter, ready to be filled with the seeds of fall. The road back to Garreg Mach was cold, wet, and long, but it was finally coming to an end. You pause at the head of the column, returning from a mission hunting bandits in the northern Kingdom of Faerghus. Your students and attendant Knights of Seiros acquitted themselves admirably, and suffered. " I thought, How the hell was I going to do that? Then I asked, "How did Nel, or was it Mel, do that?"The SchemeNicole filled me in on their plan. "Here is how it works. We spend a lot of time with the high school kids at parties. When the girls are alone, they gossip. We listen. Occasionally a girl seems to be the kind of girl that would fit in with our sisterhood."She went on, "We invite her and others like her to an all girls sleepover. The party is at the house for girls only. We serve them. ” She leaned over, like she was looking at something on me. “Um, what do you think about the things around here?”, she quietly asked me.“I think there’s some changes needed. And I think some people underestimate just how good I am at making changes.”She nodded. “Then this might be your chance to make those changes. The gangs that call this place home are already at each other’s throats. Now, you could risk your own neck and try to keep them from tearing each other apart, or, if you don’t. “God, I’m so ashamed!” Nina choked out finally when she hadgotten herself under control. “I never dreamed he would do thatwith a perfect stranger in the apartment. Not that you’re astranger,” she added quickly with a grateful glance at June. “Ifeel as if I’ve known you all my life.” “Oh, Nina, come over here and sit down,” June begged almosttearfully, leading her hostess over to the bed and still huggingher tightly to her.