We were going to follow the column if it were strung out more than we expected so that we could be sure of eliminating the officers. I didn’t consid...er them any more dangerous that any other man in the militia column, but I thought that it would be a great psychological blow if the officers were killed very early in the battle.Finally, here they came. All four officers were riding close together and passing around a flask of what had to be liquor. Certainly, no Southern officer would be caught. Friday, was a lost day at work. I just couldn’t concentrate and finally, finally, five o’clock rolled around and I drove to the address Anna had given me, a nice house just on the edge of the suburbs of our small city. I grabbed my small overnight bag and nervously but excitedly walked up the front steps and softly rapped on the door. Anna opened the door, she was even prettier than her photo, ‘Come in, Mia, oh, you are so pretty, well, your face matches the rest of you. We’re in the living. Revanche jumped hearing Trink ask who this Laurel girly was, he told Trink all about Laurel and their first meeting and her punching him in the nose and him hitting her back, hurriedly telling Trink he hadn't known then she was a girl, he frowned as he talked of last years gathering and Laurel going and how Falk had behaved and looked at her and how it had made him feel.Revanche rolled over and looked at Trink leaning on his windowsill "why did you stop coming to see us? I missed you a lot. That would be enough! Just to smell it, breathing it down deep into my lungs, my BALLS… The terrible shame of it is that as I know now, I was getting plenty of chances to do that and a great deal more but I was too young and inexperienced to know. Ah, the waste, the waste! Then came the day when I had to leave the groceries in the kitchen. The lady of the house would be out but the back door would be open. It was. I did. And crept up to the bedroom, trembling, shaking with – fear ...