You can trust me,boss." It sounded like the broken record every con played, and yetsadly, it was the truth for me. Late one night, after leaving a... bar, Ihad stumbled on a man who lay prostrate on the street, and that's thelast thing I remembered until waking up in jail, accused of the man'smurder."You'll do," Brick said, not really listening, never thinking for asecond that I was really a killer, already having assumed I had beencaught in a drug bust in which somebody went down. "Rodney,. His hateful mask of yesterday hung between us."What did you do to mother last night?" That's none of your business." I forced myself to say. What I really wanted was to hug my brother, like I used to when I couldn't be strong.He stood up, and I backed away. "Tell me!" I saw his fist clench. "Lynn said that she was yelling and groaning, and you were with her. She heard you shouting too. What did you do?" My brother followed me."Rodney, please calm down." I stepped backwards, out into the hall.. When Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini died, Megan North had hoped it would quiet some of the unrest in that country… but Yosef Madani had warned her it would change nothing. In fact, he’d told her that the one they should be keeping an eye on for the time being was President Saddam Hussein of Iraq… he’d heard through the IOPF that Hussein was planning something… Sure enough, in August of 1990, Iraqi forces invaded the country of Kuwait to the south. Saddam Hussein claimed it was because Kuwait had. You just be careful.”Riley throws her a wink. “I always am.”She turns and heads further in, rifle at the ready. The light stretches a fair distance into the cave, but as the two suns set and the deeper she goes, the faster it gets dark. The cave seems to stretch on and on and it is eerily silent. After several minutes, diminishing light and no end in sight, Riley turns back around to return to Nikki. As soon as she does, she hears the noise of crunching rocks.She spins back around, finger.