I had wanted to get as much distance between anyone who would follow. We kept a cold camp and didn’t sleep well. Up before dawn and back in the sadd...le, we ran the horses for an hour before we slowed. I had not spoken with Jasmine since we had sent the men back to their farm and little more than orders when I did speak.We spent all day in the saddle and skirted around the towns. Were they coming after us or not? There was no way to know without waiting for them. Did I want to ambush and kill. They fucked all night long, and in so many positions that Mike lost count of them. They fucked in the bed. They fucked on the floor, and they fucked on all the furniture. They did not fall asleep until 8:00 am the next morning. When Mike awoke it was 10:00 am, and time that he should be heading back home, but he could not without getting more sleep. He then reached over and grabbed the phone to call his wife. "Honey, he said, I have been detained here in Shelden and I will not be home until. Gray looked on curiously as the group approached. Not looking worried in the least. Just curious, as if he was waiting for something.The group of four men, most likely older students of Beacon Academy or some other maybe less combat-oriented place of learning, came abreast of Gray and––parted like a river around a rock.They didn’t apologize or even look annoyed at the obstacle in their way. They just shuffled around him and met back up on the other side.For a moment Gray just stood there. Finally I was closer as I saw a rag tag crowd of people around what appeared to be a town crier.“Hear ye, Hear ye. Yesterday in the presence of god and country, our great king Henry VIII, joined our lord and maker.” The crier shouted.“Eh! See here! ‘‘Hoo be takin ‘is place?” An older man at the front asked.Shaking my head I thought the man was so uneducated. Then I realized that only a few days ago I was just like him!“Shut yo mouth ‘enry!” A thin woman next to him said.“I know not who will.