"Come on in, both of you." Claudia said. We walked in through the wide entrance hall, following Claudia into a spacious and tastefully decorated lo...unge. On the two large sofas and standing around the room were the guys. Again, Carrie gave me a questioning look. "You know how we were talking the other night about your fantasy. Well tonight, you get to live your fantasy. I've arranged this special birthday treat for you. Happy birthday my love." I said to Carrie. Then the penny dropped.. Should sheneed to, she could always grasp it and change to Valkyrie. She hoped not.While she was perfectly content and willing to assume the role ofMidgard's primary protector (Karl might argue that!) she was still a teengirl, and had developed teenaged desires and thoughts. She was carefullytreading the ground between both worlds-the world of High School, and theworld where she spoke to the dead, fought giants, and entered the spiritworld. It would be tough for anyone, let alone someone who. There seemed to be a lump in my throat.“That big?”“No, not really. No bigger than I was used to, or any other I’ve had. It was just, he didn’t ask, he just took. It was as if what I wanted had no bearing on what we were doing.”Julie showed understanding. “I bet Mickey had a fit and laid into you. Been there, got the bruises.”“No, of course not. He was royally pissed off and laid down the letter of the law after he dragged me away from Neanderthal man. But he would never hurt me. He just. “Karen, would you create a ToDo list and add Prepare Business Plan to the list. Assign that task a priority of ‘H’ for high priority. For now, I think we should limit our priority assignments to high, medium, and low. Once we have a better understanding of what we need to do, we can reevaluate each priority group and differentiate between the item’s criticality by adding a suffix to the H, M, and L. I’m thinking the suffix should be a number between, one and five that in general signifies the.