"Haru looked at her,"It will be okay,she will just scold us and make sure we turn up for class in future".Aiko didn't answer,her thoughts began to won...der,the longer she sat there the more she became convinced that both her and Haru would be spanked,she smoothed down her pleated ,navy coloured skirt,she knew that the panties she wore under her skirt would offer no protection f she was to be spanked.Haru was wondering too;he was secretly enjoying the thoughts on his mind;if the Nun chose to spank. Then she sat down and started to open the rolled up packs to see what he had got.There was a small sack of dried beans, and some meat - didn't she catch enough meat? But this smelled smoky, and something else. There was soap - two bars of it! One smelled of flowers - how had they done that? There was also a bag of nails, and a hammer.The bit of wood with small sticks coming out of it confused her. Jake grabbed the pole he had been carrying, pushed it into the broom head, and using one of his. ”But she shook her head, the pin in her neat bun keeping her hair fixed. “From what I have heard, the region of Alka is strange and the city is hard to live in. I would be going there as a puffed-up pimp of a small town.”“They got a city now? That’s a change. I remember a large town back in my time. We raided it a lot.”“ ... I see.”Maybe he should keep such details to himself. “Alka is strange as you said. Not a lot of monsters. Not a lot of people too. But a hell of a lot of gods.”“You make. It seemed like forever before he heard the heavy throbbing of helicopter blades, dust swirling and buffeting him as the craft settled down in the middle of the intersection with Highway 101, half a block away.Old Tam passed out cold as he was bundled into the waiting helicopter. Out cold, or ... No! Zed didn't want to think about it. His Pa had been the driving force in the Harker community since long before Zed had been born. He started to climb into the helicopter at a medic's invitation,.