After I talk with them, we'll both walk back to the others."That's what we did. Julia kept following them at their pace, while I moved onto the grass ...beside the path then accelerated to get ahead of them a little. I stopped to ostensibly look at a mime artist, although I was really looking past him to watch Julia. She walked around the front of the parents-to-be and started talking to them.I was too far away to hear anything, but the first minute was nice and calm, then they started getting. The kids scrambled to get ready and I packed an ice chest and some snacks and put them in the back of the Jeep. When Nicki and Livvy got there, we realized we had a small problem. All three kids wanted the outside seats. None wanted to sit in the middle. We finally convinced them that we’d trade them off, so they all got equal time on the outside and because she cut the low card, Katie had to start in the middle.She pouted, said it wasn’t fair, the other two cheated. But I told her that we’d. His thick gray brows wrinkled while he considered the possibilities. Something niggled at the back of his mind. His memory went back over a half century of service in the investigative branch of the church. Something like this, in the dim past, he thought, some earlier incident, forgotten and buried in the records..."Call the research department, old country. Tell them to use the following keywords... " As he spoke, the old man scribbled a list of words on a letterhead sheet, and handed it to. A moment later he ceased to move at all."Shit. Frank. And she is a Phoenix. What a clusterfuck." Can't be helped. Break every bone she got as long as it won't kill her.Give her so much pain she will regret ever touching that spark!"And hurt her they did. A flurry of kick broke what felt like every bonein her body. It was relentless torture till Violet would have begged formercy if she still could. Then they left. Leaving her as a bloody pileof skin and bones at the side of the road.*****Time.