Five months after Dean was sworn into office, a major domestic terrorist group known as MASK sent troops from all over the world to the US. Dean mobil...ized the military and declared war on the organization, the first war fought on American soil. Unfortunately, MASK possessed advanced technology, and their enigmatic leader, Warmaster, was a tactical genius who was seemingly uncapturable. Almost every battle ended in a loss and Dean was forced to surrender on their terms a year later.By the time. “Did you fuck him?”“Yes,” I admitted. “Many times.”“And that's who you want to fuck? Your father?”“Not right now,” I said as I buttoned up my jeans. “I've met someone else. I...I shouldn't have done this.”“Who did you meet up in the mountains? One of those idiotic miners.”“A nun,” I sighed.His lip curled. “A woman? You'd rather be with a woman than me?”I pulled on my shirt. “Yeah. You'll just hurt me, Joab.”“You are a whore,” he growled. “I should have known. You know more about sex than any. The fact that it’s still intact tells me that you didn’t bring any Ultimados with you.” Her tone turned indignant. “Also, you won’t find any of those signs of cocaine use that you keep looking me over for, Troilus. I haven’t fallen that far yet.”Troy saw through Helen’s effort to change the subject and kept going.“Why didn’t you just come home, Helen?” Troy asked, referring to the home that he, Julie, and Susan shared in Federal Way, Washington; which, like anywhere they lived, Helen could also. .. yes, there it was, a neuro stimulator which, whilst it wouldn’t kill her, would cause her concentration on her shields to fluctuate at a no doubt very inconvenient moment. Carefully she wrapped a subtle block around the spell and began to backtrack along it, making sure (she hoped) that Gilles wasn’t aware that the biter was about to be bit.Gradually she increased the power of her main attacks, keeping Gilles focussed on keeping her out whilst launching a few not so easy to spot subtle blows.