The after glow far too wonderful to even think getting up let alone moving.Finally Ephus looked at Bast the look he saw there made him do a double tak...e. Was that what he thought it was etched on her face? Shaking his head he somehow managed to drag his self from her embrace, though barely!Sighing the man knew he was just imagining what he saw. She was after all a goddesses he was only the distant relative of a Greek demi-god. True he had some power but nothing like she and her sisters had, he. Let me recruit a militia to help. They refused me. They told me that if I interfered in any way, I would be out of a job. And probably have posters put out on me. I was able to get word to the old man. I didn’t hear back.”“Along about Christmas, it all came to a head. I wasn’t there. All I ever heard was from some of the Vaccaro’s, the ones that survived that is. They told me that early in the morning, raiders came over the walls and took out the sentries. From what they reported, these were. First, you lost your college money. Mom and dad were barely able to afford it together, and with your mother now treating you as 'his child, not my responsibility' you can barely afford to finish this last semester. It is a pity too, because you are really starting to get into your chosen major of Astrophysics; not a 'girly' choice, and a major reason that your mother disowned you. Your father, well, you do not really like to think about him. Ever since you turned eighteen, he has been making. “Why don’t you tell me what happened so I can give a good report to them.”“Okay... Well, I was running on the Twin Trees path, and all of a sudden someone with a-“ She sputtered, holding back tears, “With a knife, and she, she wanted....” Kelly trailed off slowly. She hadn’t even noticed Heather’s syringe move to her neck before the needle had pierced her soft flesh and delivered its payload. Her pretty green eyes, locked with Heather’s in fear, slowly began to glaze over and roll back. Heather.