My window panorama showed the trees thrashing about, trying to cling on to the steep cliffs that dropped sharply to the ocean. The cliff-top house cre...aked and shuddered around me in the gale, 400 feet above a small bay that was being relentlessly pounded by wave after wave of angry, dark-grey water. Just yesterday, I had picked my way carefully down the cliff trail and stood on the tiny beach, looking out at the calm waters of the Pacific, waiting for the sun to set. In that moment, it had felt. "Good! Honestly, I have never seen you look more fashionable then you donow. What are you going to do with your hair though?"Jessie hadn't thought about his hair today. It just laid there prettyshaggy falling just below his shoulders. He shrugged his shoulders."Here, let me put it up with one of my scrunchies." Ashley brushed Jessie's hair back and put it into a pony tail with apink scrunchie to hold it in place."There. Much better!"Jessie swished his hair a bit, satisfied with her job."Do you. Robert turned to her but before he could say anything I heard my mom’s voice coming from the doorway. ‘Crystal are you coming in? John is calling for you.’ It seemed then that she saw Robert because she called, ‘oh Robert, good you’re here. We all have a lot to talk about.’ Then I heard the door close. I looked over at Hawk who was looking at me suspiciously, then to Robert who was smiling broadly to the girl who looked as though she was about to faint. Without a word to any of them, I turned. Billy countered by blocking a stroke from the club with the bracer on his left forearm. At the same time, he swept across his body with his own knife. He hit the attacker's forearm so hard with his blade that he actually removed a length of forearm, the wrist, and the hand holding the knife. Billy knew that he was strong, but he did not realize that he was that strong. Of course, the slicing stroke had something to do with it.Blood spurted everywhere from the severed arm, and was making quite a.