"Over there was a sales item island in the main passageway. The main theme was cake mixes, but there were frosting and cupcake papers, and a hundred o...ther associated items. When I gave up on the search, she was gone.Over the next hour, I visited the pudding section, and the toiletry area, each half a dozen times. I checked the lines at the registers each time by. I called out at both restrooms. I went through the checkout line once, and carried a bag out to the truck. I'd made the trip out to. " No! You didn't?!" Sorry. Oh I'm so sorry. At the time I didn't know..."My apologies were interrupted by Anita's laughter."Who haven't you fucked? Your own daughter! No wonder she doesn't like you! And you lied to me!" She suddenly looked very angry. "You lied to me!" I didn't know how I could tell you. I didn't know who she was at the time!"She looked at me for so long that I started to squirm."No. I guess you didn't. But, you should have told me." I never saw the two of you together." I. In my heart, I know that I never stopped belonging to him … that even in his absence, he was here with me. But I still long to proudly wear his steel again, to have that something that I can reach up and grab a hold of and be reminded in some small, self-absorbed way of being able to physically be reassured that I am, indeed, his. I think of the things he has noticed and pointed out to me already, small changes that I hadn’t really noticed myself but once pointed out, embarrassed because it. I thanked him and got up. After answering the call of nature, I went to see what this emissary wanted. I took with me my longbow and a quiver of arrows.Climbing back up on the wagon that was pushed up against the wall I looked over the wall at the man who was standing out on the far side of it. A quick glance about told me that he was alone. The people who'd succumbed to the tear gas that I had fired into the street earlier that day were long gone. I didn't know if they'd recovered and made.