Tonko had made the lances as I’d asked, while I’d been rounding up the cattle that morning. He’d traded a couple of the wolf pelts for flint poi...nts similar to the arrowheads on his arrows, and he’d attached them to the lances that he’d fashioned at our campsite.I did warn Agar that the lances would have to be improved on by his own weapons makers, as these had been made quickly for the demonstration I was putting on. When I rode out with him and his brothers, I had no idea if the lances would. "Ummmm ... well..." Jhoni said, starting to blush."Come on sweetheart," I chided her and chuckled, as the interior of the car darkened because the wet red and brown leaves up in tree canopies over the road further subdued the remaining light of dusk, "surely, you can tell me anything; now."I returned her blue-eyed gaze of consideration and smile at her and winked. Her eye brows went up in surprise under the blonde sweep of her combed over bangs which almost covered her right eye."Mmmm ... Okay. His response was unexpected, Leslie. Because unlike you I'd never sensed anything compliant or submissive in him. But it was so very moving! "'April,'" he said. "'If you must, I want you to. I hope you'll leave everything there. I guess this is as good a time as any to say it. I have very special feelings for you. I want to join myself to you. I want to become part of you. I want to make you happy the way only a man can make a woman happy. I'll need what's down there to do that. I. " She paused, and then looked away. I could see the mist forming in her eyes. "But you're a good man. You've taken care of me, and you've been a great friend to Lin."I thought about that for a long while. Neither of us spoke, I just tried to collect my thoughts. I had been so exhausted worrying after Katie, I wasn't sure I could handle this much emotion. "Well I think you've been taking care of me and Katie, not the other way around."Her palm just kept stroking against my head. "Think nothing.