.." That was good for an amateur," Lily said with a devilish grin. "Let meshow you how a professional does it."Lily looked around the bar for a momen...t before settling on her target. Icould feel her calling on her magic though I couldn't see what she wasdoing at first. It seemed that being a devil meant that I naturally sawthrough illusions which was why I saw Lily and Bro as they really wereand not the way that the mortals around us did. I had to concentrate tosee the illusion that Lily was. "No. Computers," she said, grinning."And being a girl isn't that tough. I manage it," Melody said, and gaveme another hug.I snuggled with both of them, and sighed, "Okay. what's first?" A new name" Melody said, "Not too many girls named 'Alan' after all." You could go by Alana," Melody's mom suggested."No, her name will be Bonnie," my mother insisted."Why Bonnie?" I asked."Well, Alan means 'handsome" and Bonnie means 'pretty' - and as you aremy child, I get to name you," my mom said."Fine," I. Is this Jacob?’ ‘Yes it is and you must be the lovely Mary Jane. I am so glad that you called. How are you doing this fine Friday morning?’ ‘I’m doing fine. I wanted to thank you for your advice the other day.’ ‘Did you go to J & J’s to apply for a job? How did it go?’ ‘Yes I did apply for a job and I am to start on Monday. They said that they were just getting ready to put an ad in the paper for applications. I feel so lucky that I got hired before anyone else even knew that a job was. Will and the scout follow, and they watch while the men check out some traps they’ve set up at the road to help with their attack on the wagon-train. Will waits until the men return to their camp then he and the scout move in to disable the traps while setting up some of their own for those moving to the ambush locations the other men checked out. Then Will and the scout return to their camp.AmbushersThe next morning Will has his scouts leave their pack-horses with the wagons when he has them.
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