It must have been my deer-in-the-headlights look on my face.Go on fraidy-cat... you're fine.With the newfound, but tepidly resonating encouragement, I... opened thepassenger door, swung out my stocking'd legs, and stood up on my newshoes. I did a double-take on them ? the pink and white ovals justhugged my feet so pretty...The $5 bill gripped loosely in my left hand as I shut the door... Mynails ever so lightly, unintentionally, brushed up on the car door. Irealized that I need to do things much. This mission is merely surveillance, and you know I won’t risk Selina. We’ll find Bill and Kathy, check with them and send them home while we watch for a while. Someone else can relieve us after a couple of days.”Kayla, now standing behind her husband, put a hand on his shoulder before meeting the Queen’s eye. “Di, if one of us died, the rest would be devastated, but if you died, the Clan would never recover. And I can’t even think about losing Selina. I’m with Jeff on this. You’re the force. ” began Paula Akron.The two kids looked at each other, wiggled their eyebrows, and nodded. Somehow, this meant that Paul should speak first, because Paula had spoken first before, with the question of their first meeting.“The first time I heard Paula sing,” the boy said, “well the first time we heard each other was in a clubhouse before our parents got arrested. About the time I was starting to think that Paula might be my girlfriend.”“And the first time we thought we’d like to sing. Kirin and his five mercenaries stayed in their two tents on the north-west side of the tree, near the large fire pit. They were also near Kerr’s tent. Micky commented that they’d kept a rotating guard on these tents whenever she had checked the area.Kerr, Miles and Jen were pretty much left alone unless Kerr was trying to get the hired help and mercenaries to do something for him. Since they had failed at hacking at the tree the day before, Kerr was not having much luck with motivating his.