"I think you're right. Will you let her know if she's awake when you go up?" Will do." My voice sounded higher pitched than normal. I tried to eat a b...anana, but couldn't swallow my first bite. The fear in me was preventing it. Instead, I went to let Kizuna know she was staying home.She was already awake when I opened the door. Looking at me, she asked, "Was last night real?" I'm afraid so," I replied. At Kizuna's questioning look, I added, "It's time for school but you're staying here today.. We needed to move forward but she kept all the pictures and insisted on getting some simple frames with quick release backs so she could put a new picture up any time. She had one on the back of her wardrobe door from then on and sometimes I'd find one on the bedroom wall.You might think I’d be glad to have a dutiful wife back but it wasn’t that simple. We had to avoid getting back in a rut, but on top of that, she had to go back to work, to do what amounted to her job and Dean’s, with other. How are you?" Very well, thank you. Um, Sharon, isn't it?" Yup! Sharon it is."Richard could contain himself no longer and burst into the hall."Deborah, hello!"Sharon bit her lip to stop bursting with laughter."Hello, Richard! I'm a bit late." Nonsense! Um Sharon... ?" Coffee, Mr H?" Bless you, my love!"Sharon's eyes, which had never left him since he came in, lit up."And shortbreads? I brought some more with me 'cos I noticed last week that you'd run out." Ooh, yes please! Sharon, you are an. It would be inaccurate to call him a man of the past because he transcended time. Carl was part of group that had been referred to in various mythologies. In Western cultures they were known as Paladins, the Twelve Peers or Knights of the Round Table as a few examples. While many of the stories that about them had little basis in fact the Paladin did and do exist. They were and are part of the continuous battle between good and evil for control of the earth. Carl had been part of that battle.