Maybe I could see some coeds in a short skirts and crop tops.I'd been home for a week just decompressing and enjoying the land of the big PX when I ra...n into Riley Jansen. Riley had been and was still my best friend; we had grown up together. Before I'd gone to work with my dad full time at 20, Riley and I had been the scourge of the female population of our town. I slowed down after going full time; dudes working with explosives don't need hands shaking from too much alcohol and not enough. If I wasn’t a priest of the Fox, I suspect they would have run me off sooner.”“You aren’t a priest,” Corec reminded him, calling back over his shoulder.“Seeing as how they still follow the old gods, I’ll let them decide who is and who isn’t,” Bobo said. “I imagine I’m as legitimate as any of the others wandering the hills. I certainly did the work of one.”Corec shook his head. “Just keep it quiet when we get back to the West Road, will you? We’re still close enough to Tyrsall to fall under its. Still they chanted on and gathered more power.When the moon rode at it's highest peak the magick flowed together to thecenter circle and formed a column to the heavens. The mages continued onand the magick reacted. Great tendrils flowed out of the column and rodethe lines of the Earth. Everywhere the magick went, it gathered more andmore power. It meant robbing other places, times, and peoples of themagick that they had wielded whether it had been for good or ill.Still the chanting. Not all the time, but some of the times. And mine did.During the next year, Claudia had gotten married to a nice man. Marcello, Claudia's husband, was a bank manager and though his salary was considered decent, they still found it hard to save for the nice things in life since the rent was so damn high in Rome. Claudia worked as well, but it wasn't enough to even put them in the status of upper middle-class, in terms of European standards.Because of their financial difficulties, which I wasn't.