“Honey, we need to talk.” He said, meaning to tell her the whole story.“Talk later, I need this now.” She whined twisting her wrists in an att...empt to pull her arms free.“Sophia, I did a bad thing and I need to talk with you now. This isn’t you, it’s the pie.”She stopped suddenly and looked at him, her face confused, but also knowing. “What do you mean, it’s the pie?” She asked. It was obvious that she must have suspected something since she ate the pie last night and this morning and was acting. In little under a half an hour I had 100 compound bows, 250 crossbows, 20 mini crossbow pistols and 200000 fletched composite shafts with interchangeable heads on the way. I ordered enough heads to interchange twice in both hunting broad head and target models. I got a dozen of the competition targets also. That reminded me of something I'd forgotten so I called J&G again. I asked for Nancy and was transferred. She had to look in her supplier directory but found what I'd asked for. She said she. He had to graduate to get Mary's job and that meant he had to study. The only time she saw him happy, he was she! Even then his eyes were full of fatigue and unrelieved emotional distress. Feeling very cruel she forced her worries aside and kept a smile on her face as she scolded Mary for not taking enough exercise and eating too much junk food.She would have been surprised to find that her scolding's actually made Tom feel better because she only talked to him like that when he was Mary! To. With a tattered cloth tied into a script, a broken sword scavenged from the rubble, clothes I looted from the dead, and a single loaf of black bread I left that burning city of my captivity. ‘Can’t say I didn’t look back.’ No, oh no. I looked back. Looked back and smiled to see those high towers topple, the golden domes falling to shatter upon scorched paving stones. Smiled to see the black, oily smoke rising from the corpse pile that still smoldered. How many faces had I recognized in that.