"These shoes are killing me" she said as she took them off her feet. She must have seen me watching, because she moved her leg slightly to the right ...exposing the inner part of her thigh. THIGH HIGHS! MMMM. I quickly looked up at her, she was smiling at me. "See something?" She asked. "Mmmm hmm" I said. "What do you see?" she asked her gray eyes staring intently into mine. I said "Proving ground". Without hesitation I got up on my knees and crawled over in front of her. She knew what I was. Charles was cutting Putin's legs out from under him, and doing it without saying a single inflammatory word. There was nothing Vlad could complain about, because President Charles Thornton was being studiously correct in every way. "Russia has a long history of political struggles, punctuated by times of fabulous success, and then followed almost automatically by disturbing abuses against her people. Those abuses always precede an accounting that often causes those that hurt Russia's citizens. The guy wasn't that old, as his rack wasn't that big. I figured him to be about five years old and the younger bucks were all two and three years. The way they were tag teaming the older deer, he would soon wear out, and then they would have to compete among themselves. I decided that if I could get two shots off fast enough, I should use up a couple of my buck tags.Sitting in a comfortable position with the rifle barrel resting on the limb of a fallen tree, I had a perfect field of fire on all. “Thank you,” Guy said.Guy followed Selena into the apartment feeling a little guilty about imposing on her like this. He just knew that if he went home that he’d probably end up in jail.Selena gestured around the place. The video tapes and Cds that were scattered around on the floor were the result of Mike. She said, “This is home sweet home. I apologize for the mess. I guess Mike wasn’t too happy about being asked to leave.”“I understand,” Guy said.It was a pretty nice apartment considering.