The Council is trying to hire a mercenary army from Palosa to the south, but I do not think that Glaius will wait for them to raise an army before he ...attacks. There have been several skirmishes already along the border."I thought about the situation long and hard."Would you flee if you could?" I asked."It would mean leaving behind everything we had spent our lives building here. The restaurant itself is nothing, but the ovens and the boilers and the fire pits are all tools that we've built. ===My wife is a troublemaker. Later in the next week, I got an online friend request. My wife made me accept, and then she made me accept the chat request that followed.It was Wendy, and she really wanted to apologize for two things.First, she apologized because she had misspoken by the fire to fend off one of the other men there. What she really meant to say was that she didn't have sex with a married man without the express permission of his wife. She was quick to point out that she hadn't. I took that opportunity to clean up again, and as I was heading back to my spot I heard Kathy call out to me. She was sitting at a table smoking a cigarette, and I sat with her. We talked a bit, I told I was surprised that she stopped fir us, but she said she looked at us, and decided we were ok right away. She said she couldnt sleep, and was just about to take a walk, and as jh ed if she could see where we set up our spot to camp, as it were..lol. we got back there and there was a little. I listen to it dance upon my poncho, like a million tiny angels. I gaze upon the watery beauty before me. The light and the dark have met. I realize that I'm “there”. In that moment between day and night, dark and light. I'm caught between security and vulnerability. Wet and dry. I love it so. It warms my skin yet chills it too. I want to be this way forever.At that very thought my eyes are drawn to a figure on the trail below me. I blink a few times as I’m not sure what it is. Is it a.