“We have no idea. Just as we have no idea why he or they hung those people from the street lights last night, or why the various houses were burned ...down,” he admitted.“Basically, you know nothing more than we do about who or what is causing all of this then,” one of the well-known Television news reporters stated as the cameras focused on him.“No, we are still trying to determine why this has happened, and who is responsible,” the Mayor admitted in defeat. The news conference broke up then as. I emerged from the bathroom, still trying to fasten one of the buttonson the cuff of the shirt and, without raising my eyes from this task, Iasked Becky, ?Should I tuck this shirt in or leave it hanging out??Becky approached me and responded with, ?Don?t be silly, sweetie.That?s not a shirt. It?s a blouse. And you should always tuck it in.?On hearing Becky call what I was wearing a blouse I finished buttoningthe cuff and looked up. When I did this I got the shock of my life.Becky had removed. It had never occurred to her before that her saviour might be a woman, never once in the whole time she'd been imprisoned here. Of course, she knew there were female knights, but for whatever reason she'd always imagined some brave young man coming to her rescue. She tried to clear her head, focus on the here and now, but the shock lingered. In a haze, she asked the only question that came to her head."Where's your shield?"Again, Sir Treningham laughed. "Gone, I'm afraid. The dragon's fire was. Of course, I would shoot any of them if I ever met them again, but Sanchez was the one I really wanted.I had no idea as to how clever Sanchez might be, so I decided that my safest bet was to treat the chase after him like I would treat chasing an Apache. The only difference this would make would be that it would take me a little longer to catch Sanchez, but catch him I most certainly would.I returned to the place where Sanchez had been shot and began to follow his tracks at a moderate lope. I.
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