When I got home, it was very late. I found Pearl upstairs in my bed for a minute all I could do was stand motionless staring at her beautiful long brown hair that was partially covering her face. I silently slipped over to her and pulled the covers up over her arms and as like a thief sneaked out of the room. I sat at the table because my rocking chair was a very squeaky seat and I didn't want to wake her. I sat there till late in the night thinking of how I was going to make money. Golem building isn't a very popular job field. I could be a blacksmith. Wait, with the decline in monsters there isn't much use for weapons. I guess I have to get a job or we are going to starve. But who needs an extra hand to help with their business? Maybe the tavern, where Rachel works I wonder if they are hiring. I heard a soft sound. "Huh?" I whispered to myself as I looked at my fire. Li'l Cactus was putting a new log in the fireplace. I watched as he put three logs in before it hit me. That's why my fire never goes out. He keeps it burning all night and all day. "Good night," Li'l Cactus said to me then he winked his eye and ran upstairs as quietly as he came down. I didn't even have a chance to say anything to him before he left. He is a fast runner and always so dang quiet even to me. I went to the study a place I stayed a lot of nights in the last five years. The covers I brought in there last week was still on the floor where I left them. So, I grabbed one of my books and began to read. My study was barely ever used five years ago but, now it seems I am always there. The floor houses probably a good twenty to thirty closed books and ten to fifteen open ones and my desk is filled with so many books, I am afraid it will break if I put another one on it. I eventually read myself into a deep sound slumber.