I chewed on the bagel and the simple taste receptors allowed me to identify it as a bread with a sweet cheese addition. If anyone asked, I would know ...that it was a sweet cheese on some kind of chewy bread. In my mechanical mind the bagel with cream cheese analysis was easy to locate and classify. In other words I knew what I was eating from the taste not just the name.When I finished it and half my coffee, I turned my attention to Peter and the game. "So what is the most likely scenario?" I. After Caspar's night of passion with Annika he'd sent the court sorcereraway. That way when Alaric went looking for him Caspar informed theenraged husband that the sorcerer was gone. Horus, never one to wastean opportunity, had journeyed south to the southern-most city within therealm of Vanaheim. The city of Gildar was the center of the slave tradefor the region and Horus had found Nefertari on the slave block. Whenhe brought her to the castle Caspar knew he had to have her.As quick as a. " Some of her students got uppity," I replied. "So what? Kids are always pulling pranks." I would hardly describe attacking an Archon as a PRANK!" Briar's eyes flashed. Archons are Immortals a level higher than she. Stronger, too."What? How?" How else? Zibong magic." Briar explained tersely. "Rabsha caught a couple of Pteri's students using the forbidden magic. He thought he was going to get an arrest. Possibly even banishment. You know how much he likes to use his authority. The kids turned on. It will be seen in the sequel whether we had judged correctly or not. Suffice it to say that her three days’ visit ended in her being perfectly satisfied with the offered position, and mamma being equally satisfied with her. We did not know at the time, but afterwards found out, that she had made it a sine qua non that she should have carte blanche as to the use of the rod. She had observed to mamma that she thought we had been too leniently treated by our late governess, and it would be.