Bravo! This is what beholder is all about for me. Making the so-called background characters into three-dimensional, interesting people with lives and loves and disappointments and hopes and dreams. Your Moody...My goodness, what a delightfully crass, flawed, strong, suspicious, complicated man. Well matched, I think, with strong, clever and sexy Minerva. And the banter and snark were perfect. :) The fact that most of the story took place over a few hours yet was so engaging speaks well of your writing. I love that your Moody was unabashedly disabled and that you pulled no punches about how that affects self-esteem and expectations. So, basically, great story! I enjoyed it. :)