"The villages were burned out more than a week ago so I don't think that this group did it. My guess is that they are reinforcements, stragglers like ...us, and they probably think that they are in safe territory. Why else would they bring their families across the river? We should hit them fast and hard while we can still surprise them."Later in the day more scouts came back with information about the countryside around the enemy war band and reported good terrain to fight in the direction of. Our relationship would be more like one you would find between friendly cousins. Since I am not as authoritative as her parents, or as distant as her friends seem to be, and since I am her only sibling, she usually unburdens herself on me. I don’t mind, I enjoy helping people. She also comes to me for homework help, and I naturally oblige. Recently, she began learning that her friends aren’t very outstanding people. Virginia is very mature for her age, and decided to stop affiliating. I recognized the canister in her hand ... the one pointed right at my face ... as being pepper spray just as she triggered it.If you've never gotten a shot of pepper spray directly in the eyes, don't go out and do that. You don't need to do that to understand that it's a really unpleasant way to spend half an hour. All you have to do is put a little spritz in the air and walk through it. Hold your breath while you do it, by the way. No sense in dealing with both streaming eyes AND coughing up a. I asked Chas what he was hearing from the guys and he was just vague (and Chas was never vague about anything). It was around this time that a large group of our friends started weekending outside the city (this is a true story so I’m not going to say where…or is it, could what you are about to read really be true?). For several months, it was actually nice; Chas and I got to spend more time together and I felt we were entering a new phase of our relationship, a deeper connection. Well, it.