G…go back or…I’ll sh…shoot!” He just continued to smile as he moved forward, gently reaching down to take the gun from her hand and tossing ...it into her laundry hamper with a negligent flick of his wrist. She got up onto her knees and turned towards the other side of the bed to crawl off, in a state of panic, but he grabbed onto her left wrist. It wasn’t a painful grasp, but strong and firm, allowing no movement from her. Something odd came over her as he touched her, and she glanced back at. I glanced at the horizon. The sun sank towards the water. I sighed. “I would love to stay, but we need to bring our catch in.”Willa sighed. “Money.”Ayral frowned. “What's money?”“It's...” I frowned. What was money? “Coins made of metal. We need them to buy things.”“Buy?”“Like food,” Willa said, “and to pay the dock fees and our landlord on the rent of our apartment.”Ayral shook her head. “Those are such strange words. Buy. Rent. Fees. I am learning so many new things.”I chewed my lip. “We'll be. My Father and the Inspector started walking back toward us, Billy said: "I think we will soon be feeling the Flames" My Father said: "Yes you are right Billy, it wont be long now before you light the Fire, and we decided that we are not going to carry you all over to the Fire, you can all walk over and pick out your spotwhere you want to be Burned, so all four of you get up and come over and pick out your Hot Seat" I got to My feet and walked over to the Fire seats, there were two seats, like. I bent down to kiss her and she jerked her head away and said:"Don't you dare touch me you fucking asshole."I stood up and went to the fridge and got myself a beer and then sat down across from her and said:"And just why am I a fucking asshole?"She picked up a manila envelope from the table in front of her and threw it at me."Read that!!" she snarled.It was a report from a detective agency and it covered my last two meetings with Vangie."What have you got to say to that?"I looked at her for a.