No one has claimed my mother’s death so far, and no one knows she is dead outside Rose and me. After she died, we had to work hard not to let it spr...ead, since my mother’s very existence allowed Thorny Rose to continue to exist, no one wanted to go against the most powerful being in the world.’‘Although no one claimed her death, and no one knows that she died, someone still killed her. I don’t know who or how, but if that person, or organization, still exists, if I become too evident, they can. ..... And my clothing decissions.Hmm... I know that last part sounds kind of weird, but it makessence when tom explaines it : move in with them, give tom mycheck the first of each month, give tom my porsh-I now ride pam's old bike to work instead, which kind of puts a wrinkle in my pant suits, but tom says that's what skirts are for!!! All that's fine! I just wish he didn't keep making me...Well, I don't HAVE to do it...Pam just never could stand up to people, poor thing. Total opposite of me-. Aldo gave him no time to socialize with those his own age, or chase girls. He worked by the light of the forge, which was always lit, and that meant he worked from dawn to dusk. So he didn't know how to act around girls ... especially one so fair and beautiful as this. Added to that was that she was a lady's maid, who had access to the mistress of the manor. He had seen the lady, as she dickered with his father, and her beauty had simply taken his breath away. Sally's simply paralyzed. “I am afraid that he caught me unaware. I do know this; we are no where ready to take him on. He had a hundred men there that were far stronger than the assistant’s. Though unlike the assistant’s, these felt completely void of conscious thought or emotion. They’re almost the perfect killing machines.”“Damn it! All the work we have done and we’re nowhere near ready!? What the hell else do we need to do!?” Harman asked in shock at the revelations that Alan had just revealed.Alan smirked and.