He could tell the line was active. “Hello!” he’d shouted again in a cracking voice. Since 9:24 pm, last night, his voice was an octave higher th...an normal. Normal being a relative term, as nothing was normal about Charlie Castle now.“Hello?” he shouted again. The line crackled, cleared for a long moment that Charlie missed in his near-hysteria, crackled loudly again, and died with an electronic shriek.What could he do? Hit the redial button, he thought immediately. Yanking up the handset again,. You'll have food and a safe place to live. Probably more important to you, your children will be safe too." Think it over Sally," Casey said. "Sleep on it and give us your decision in the morning." Casey stood and stretched. "I'm done talkin ladies, I'm headed for bed. Y'all stay up as late as you want. Good night."The next morning after a breakfast of oatmeal and some canned bacon, Casey strapped on his .357 and picked up his bow."I'm gonna check the snares," Casey told the ladies. "Should be. "I told you quite clearly:a fucking e-transfer or fuck all. Get out. I'll call you after I get themoney."-----000-----The next day, a chastened Alan and much humbler Leanne sat by Hank's desk.Hank opened a drawer, extracted a piece of paper, put it on the desk, andpushed it over toward them. They picked it up and read it."It's only got an address!" Alan complained.Hank grumped and replied, "That's what you asked for."Leanne urged Hank to describe her ex-husband and whatever else he. Vonkobra was able to find a position to get a direct target lock and sent some good damage into it. Medusa and I, who were down in the valley to the west of the ridge were able to move further to the west flank and get target locks. We also added decent damage to the target who was now starting to feel the weight of fire.The Kintaro pilot realised they were out of their depth and started to retreat back north. Hacker jumped close and got a good lock and got an ammo explosion in the left torso.