The three climbed some stairs after entering the hideout, and came to a spacious, living room.
"Abigail! Zoe!" King called out. A little girl, about six or seven came running into the room with a woman in her twenties chasing her.
"This is Zoe, and this is Abigail." Blade said motioning toward the little girl and the woman, respectively.
"Hi, it's nice to meet you. I'm Tamlyn." she said to both, shaking the woman's hand.
"I'll show you your room, and the barn. Then you can start to move in." Blade said to Tamlyn as he started to walk off.
"Alright then." she said as she followed him.
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"Hey, let me help you." King said as he walked out the door of the hideout, and over to Tamlyn who was carrying a few boxes.
"The only thing left to do is unload the horses, and I really doubt you're up to that." she said to him almost sarcastically as she walked by him, and back through the door.
"Who says I'm not?" he asked, taking all but one of the boxes from her.
"Blade told me you aren't one for animals." she replied starting up the stairs.
"That doesn't prevent me from being a helpful guy." he said matter-of-factly as they stepped off of the stairs.
"Well then, we'll get rid of these boxes, and be on our way." she replied to him walking down the hall to her newly acquired room.
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"You'd better hurry, it's already four." Blade said to Tamlyn and King as they moved toward the tack room in the newly built barn with a few saddles.
"Hurry for what?" they both asked skeptically.
"We're going out to dinner." Blade replied as he headed back into the hideout.
"We'd better hurry in that case. Horses still need to be fed and turned out." she said to King.
"You've been here for four hours, and your horses are all moved in, but your stuff is still in boxes." King said jokingly to her.
"If they're happy, I'm happy." she said to him, smiling as she threw the two saddles she had been carrying onto racks.
"If I didn't have them, you have no idea how lost I'd be." she added as she walked out of the barn, stopping to give both Dixie and Jack an early snack.
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"It's five-thirty, reservations are for seven, and you probably don't want to walk into the restaurant like that." Abigail said to Tamlyn as she came through the door.
"True, but the barn work's done." she replied as she headed upstairs to get a shower.
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"Hey, Abigail! How fancy is this restaurant?" Tamlyn called as she walked down the hall toward her bedroom.
"Put somethin' on and I'll tell you if it's fancy enough!" she heard Abigail reply.
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"This work?" Tamlyn asked as she walked into the kitchen wearing a pair of jeans, a black, silky halter top, and one of her rodeo buckles. Her hair still in a towel.
"No, not really." Abigail replied to the question. "But he's going as is, so it doesn't really matter how any of us dress now." she added motioning toward Blade, who was leaning against the sink still wearing his black leather trenchcoat.
"Well then, I'll dry my hair and we'll be on our way." Tamlyn said walking out of the kitchen.
After he knew she was out of hearing distance, King let out a whistle while sitting at the table.
"Don't even think about it." Blade replied after he had grabbed King by the neck.
"Thought terminated." King replied, trying for air.