You want me to be ME!" And at the end of every day, I want you to think that 'me' is a part of 'us'."Her face was inches from mine, her green eyes con...nected to my blue. "Dan," she said earnestly, "I stopped being 'me' and became part of 'us' when you admitted you loved me."Some basmati rice, a little bit of exotically spiced chicken and a handful of vegetables made dinner for us. She hovered as close to me as she could in the tiny kitchenette. I talked about the ideas that my old buddies Sanji. With the full red gown it would bespectacular!But of course the lipstick was wrong now. I put a small dab of make-upremover on another cotton ball and worked on my lips. It wasn't necessaryto do a total removal, just enough to get the majority of the color off.I knew what was next and sure enough I reached for a lip liner. Ioutlined my mouth very carefully, choosing just the shape that would bethe most attractive. Then I reached for a tube of semi-gloss lipstick. Iremoved the cap and twisted. Kara took a second to smile at their beauty. They gazed back solemnly with their owl faces and yellow eyes.Kara looked at the sky again and took a moment to think. "These clouds, yellow stripes mixing with black? What the hell is that? Hope Mark is paying attention. Oh Kara, stop worrying! Of course he is!"Kara walked out of the brush and up to her team. Lois and Mahi had moved both bodies to the back of the SUV, and all traces of the battle had been cleaned from the road.Mahi smiled as he saw. A strong defense was offered but once the three red dragons got into it the world burned and all that was left of your family were a despaired widow and a new born son that would never meet his father.They retreated to their small manor in the capital that they kept to live when at court. An official petition to the emperor started the Lorican war to retake the land of your ancestors and stop the horde's advance. The Empire was joined in that effort by many of the dwarves Thanes and two clans.