" "Then I think I will stay too." "Then I think I will stay too." Garth smiled. "Good!" Ken smiled, seemingly pleased with himself. "Okay, then, well... we've got dinner cooking downstairs, that was first flash. We're going out tonight; you said you wanted to see a play performed by Pendorians, well, The Wizard of Oz is being performed at the Marbletop Ampitheatre North. Are you game?" "Sounds good." On their return from the theatre, Furry found herself feeling somewhat lonely. Kiza was treating her just as she had asked her to, as if they were no longer lovers. That much, apparently, was true. It hurt, too, to know that while Kiza had eased out of her life with little fanfare, Nickolai was still somewhere in the Great Hall, actual location or condition unknown. While there were no documented cases, there were rumors that the Hall just rejected some people and they 'never came out.' Thoughts like that had given her nightmares last night when she had slept alone. She shivered slightly and walked along behind the people she had come with. Although Skii was trying hard to be all over Garth, she could see that Garth and Kiza had made up their minds a long time before; they weren't keeping their hands to themselves very successfully. Any closer and they might as well have been wearing each other's clothing. Ahead of them, Ken, Aaden and P'nyssa walked along. Although their strides propelled them just as fast, there was something serene about they way they carried themselves, as if they hadn't a care in the world despite the political pressures Ken had been talking about hours earlier, conversations that had occupied his every free moment at dinner. |