<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 15px">"The Huntress and the Champion"<br/>
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Twenty-five year old Archie Barlow was somewhat confused.  Maybe he shouldn’t have been.  Ever since his patron, Mr. Alexander Panagakos, hired him out of the racetrack kennel to be his dog handler things had been somewhat different from what most folks would call ‘normal’.  While Mr. Panagakos didn’t bat an eyelash for the cost of first-class seats on international travel, Archie had never thought of the man as frivolous with his money.  Now, the two of them had flown across the country just to have dinner at some restaurant that Archie had never heard of, but that Mr. Panagakos knew about and was extremely excited going to.  <div class="bbm_float fright" style="float:right;margin:0 0 5px 10px">
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When they arrived at the airport in Los Angeles, because they were traveling from east to west, it was only four in the afternoon, instead of Florida’s current seven in the evening.  Being so early, they went to their hotel.  Mr. Panagakos booked them very plush adjoining suites.  Archie was accustomed to the nice hotel rooms that his boss booked for them when they traveled, like to the Artemis Games.<br/>
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Six years ago, Archie had never heard of the Games.  It turned out the Artemis Games were a very big thing in Greek families with money.  If a wealthy Greek, or a person of Greek descent like Mr. Panagakos, didn’t have a child that had was skilled with talents that included dog handling, running and archery, then they often sponsored an athlete with those talents.  Archie’s heritage had a lot of Greek blood in it, which pleased Mr. Panagakos a lot.  In the last six years, with Mr. Panagakos sponsorship, Archie had done very well.  Archie placed third in the Games his very first year and had become the Games champion the last five years running.<br/>
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Working for Mr. Panagakos and becoming the champion had allowed Archie to move his parents to a much nicer neighborhood.  Archie had also been able to build a very nice home with his own kennel on twenty-five acres of land.  Then there was Daphne, Mr. Panagakos’ grand-daughter, who he’d only recently been introduced to and who had just turned eighteen last month. <br/>
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Daphne didn’t seem to much care for Archie which he could understand as he was certain that she was seven years younger than Archie and her grandfather was now meddling in her life.  The girl was quite attractive, curvy in all the right places, but neither one of them were quite ready to get married and they’d agreed that they’d explore the idea every now and then in the future if they were both unattached.<br/>
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Now, after resting, showering and dressing in very very nice suits, Archie and his sponsor took a limosine and arrived at Dion’s.<br/>
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(to be continued)</span></span>