"It's up to them, now." I hope," was all I could say.I got the upshot from the news again, the next day. This time the story was better, thank God. Th...ey didn't identify the kid—protecting the identity of minors, even lethal ones, and all that—but state police assisted by the locals had paid an early morning call to his home, had seized no fewer than five guns including an assault rifle plus assorted other quasi-military paraphernalia, and had taken the boy into custody.It appeared that I owed. She was alone as usual. I figured this was my chance and I entered her house to see her dressed extra sexy and she gave me that seducing look. I got an instant boner but I had to hide it to be less embarrassing.She came near me and asked me if I wanted something. I said I just wanted her company for which she said she wanted it badly too. I understood her intentions a little bit but was still a little scared to make the first move.Then she asked me to sit while she went inside and changed into. Slipping beneath the surface one last time… I looked up at the night’s gleaming jewels through a rippling window. The moon’s sad face gleamed back at me as kindly as it always had… unchanged by all the centuries we had spent winking at each other. We were two weary old souls who had seen far too much pass between us, after all. Storms and smoke and screaming metal chariots had come and gone, changing the world so utterly and not at all. Yet still we both just journeyed onwards… keeping to the. I excused myself and walked outside to make a call on my cell phone. I wanted to let my husband know that I would be late. He wasn't too pleased and became unreasonable. Irritated by his vile mood I cursed him and slammed the phone down.?That's not the way to treat an innocent piece of equipment, Beth!? A deep voice, I would have recognized anywhere, whispered from behind me. ?You!? I exclaimed, my voice sounding strange, as if I was hearing some other woman talking. My stomach lurched.