” They grumble as they head into their rooms.I dash to the front desk and inquire, “Do you by any chance have underground parking?”The concierge... replies, “We certainly do, and at no additional cost. Let me assign you a parking place.”She comes back and says, “Just place this on the dashboard of your truck. Might I say that was an interesting group of people you brought into the facility.”I smile at her and admit, “They have had a very rough and bad time so I would appreciate it if you forgot. My next call was to the police dispatcher, to tell them who we were, that we’d been assaulted with a weapon, and that the perp had been a cop killer who’d been in on the attack on the Moore family. I added he was dead.Tabitha Jackie Moore Wilson had stopped being a victim, she’d become a warrior, and she’d righteously kicked some ass. I put my pistol down in plain sight on the ground beside our truck and pulled my driver’s license from my wallet. I stood kissing my wife as the first of dozens. Me."*cough* *cough* "Where am I?" A boy no older than 19 saidlooking around the area, just realizing that this wasn't his home."Ugh, my head.."He then noticed a young girl wearing what would seem to be a symbol of his planet. She had some sort of black mechanical things lodged into her ear before turning around to see I was awake. "Oh you're awake!" the girl said hopping out of her chair.Because of just waking up after years, your voice starts to crack as you ask "w-who are y-ou?" Well my name. Rank has no meaning, with the troops so thin and the needs of the day unabated." She sighed and seemed to retreat into her herself, "Try the domiciles on Hyacinth Lane; I always fancied the houses there."She turned away without another word.Rayna was puzzled, "Where are we?" This is one of the neighborhoods reserved for the king's troops and their families outside of the Wall. Higher ranking officers get apartments within the Wall, but this neighborhood is guarded and maintained." Nor easy to.
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