*Dion* “Your car ?” She asks as I help her into it. I had been standing beside it, waiting for her to come out. “Kai’s”. I settle on the seat beside her. She looks around. “Your brother has done very well for himself”. “He has earned it. He has worked long and hard for every penny that now lines his pockets”. He is tearing down and rebuilding a poorer section of the city, has built a massive hotel that is becoming quite the talk of the town, and has married into a high pack ..- even if he himself remains without a title. “What do you do, Dion ? Are you still a slaughterer ?” She asks. “Going to prison for horse theft put an end to that”. She squeezes her eyes shut. “God, I’m so sorry”. Leaning closer, I take her hand, wishing I had brought her a pair of gloves, and at the same time

