This is part 1 of the sequel to &lt;HREF A="<a href="https://midnightzingaro.deviantart.com/art/At-the-Charity-Dinner-510770263">midnightzingaro.deviantart.com&hellip;</a>"&gt; "At the Charity Dinner"&lt;/A&gt;. I don't think that it requires knowledge of the events of that story.<br /><br />This is in 5 parts (primarily due to the maximum amount of text DA allow in a single post). The remaining parts I shall be posting at weekly intervals.<br /><br />The whole thing is rather long (long novella or short novel length) and has taken me nearly two and a half years to write (on and off, having written twenty-something other things in the meantime).<br /><br />I hope you enjoy this and don't find it too long-winded.<br /><br />V.