not right to ask a woman to take."
121 Mountain Glory slammed her fists on the table. "Never, EVER," she
screamed, "EVER say that AGAIN! You are as much of a man as anyone
else, and ten times more than most! Don't you EVER say that you're
lacking in anything, and I know you have another mistress by the name
of Knowledge, and I will have to all my life, fight her for your attention. But it is a fight I am willing to join.
122 A woman has to understand her man, too, and know the things he has
to do, and follow after him when she must. Do you think I'm a fool?"
she started eating again.
123 "You're no fool," complimented Gray Boar, "you're a wonderful
woman. Perhaps its me that has been the fool. No man can be wise in
everything."
124 They finished the rest of their meal and Mountain Glory brought the
hot roasted grain beverage and her apple crumble.
125 "I have to go back to the lab for a while," announced Gray Boar,
"but I promise I won't stay late. We've got to fly some distance away
tomorrow, for some tests. I want you to come along, alright?"
126 "Of course," agreed Mountain Glory. "I'm SUPPOSED to come along,
remember?"
127 Gray Boar finished his desert and beverage. "I like this Grain All
better than Barley Roast," he said, "can we keep getting it?"
128 "I'll see to it," agreed Mountain Glory. She cleaned up, went
upstairs, changed into her nightclothes, and sat down at her drafting
board. A while later she heard Gray Boar enter his room. A short time
after that, the adjoining door opened, and Gray Boar came in, he, too,
in his nightclothes.
129 "Good Lords, woman!" he gasped, "That isn't fair! That's temptation
almost beyond enduring. For a