." Dev started, but was interrupted."Devlin! While I applaud your single-mindedness, you did ask me for my help. That help comes with a price. You can... remain in the army if you like, but you will be detached to me for the duration of your enlistment. I will even make you a captain. How about that?" Lord Benaldin asked.Dev felt insulted, and it must have shown."Oh, do calm down. I didn't mean it like it was nothing. You will be in the army, and you will serve a very real and serious function. No big deal. When I threw it into the kitchen drawer, I noticed that it joined almost a dozen other pens from work. Was I subconsciously stealing supplies? I viewed myself as an honest man. Well, kind of honest, given a series of extramarital couplings. But the babysitters who seduced me and that bossy stranger in the gynecologist's office were almost beyond my control. At least, that was my story and I was sticking to it.Over the next couple of months, I made sure that I left pens from work at. Devin tries to stand up but I shove him back into his chair.“What are you gonna do kid,” I ask him coldly,” You got nowhere to go, nowhere to hide, I’m gonna embarrass you in front of everyone here and you can’t stop me on my worst day. Stand up.”I watch as Devin tries to stand up before I shove him back into his chair. Kori is whispering to Katy and the two of them get quiet as I shoot them a glare before turning back to Devin who has tears running down his face.“You want out you gotta go. The Crow bred far faster than the People and they gobbled our lands; Growing Room they said. The Pawnee snipped; a piece here, a corner there. Of course we fought back ... then the Crow and Pawnee allied with the soldiers ... and they gave presents; guns and all the ammunition the indian scouts could use.The constant warfare wore us down. Frosty mornings hurt my bones and the constant winter glare bothered my eyes. My wives were sick one winter and never woke up. My children were captured or.